Print, Design for Wall Niche with a Bed

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder. It is dated 1745 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 35.8 x 22.8 cm (14 1/8 x 9 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower right, in plate: Gravé par C. A. de Lespilliez.

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: C. P. S.C.M. / Livre de decorations de Lambris inventées par F. de Cuvilliés premier Architecte de S.A.S.E. de Baviere; Printed upper right, in plate: 19me. Livre. / T.; Printed lower center, in plate: Se vend à Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St. Iacques à l'image S. Benoît, avec privilege du Roi, et chez l'Auteur.; Printed lower right, in plate: 1; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 105

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