Print, Design for Wall Niche with a Fountain

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez. 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: 35.5 x 22.9 cm (14 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: 16me. Livre / C.P.S.C.M. / Desseins de Lambris Nouvellement jnventés par le Sr. de Cuvilliés premier Architecte de S.A.S.E. de Baviere.; Printed upper right, in plate: Q; Printed lower center, in plate: Se vend a Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St. Iacque a L'jmage St. Benoit, Avec Privilege du Roy, et chez lauteur; Printed lower right, in plate: Cette decoration pouroit servir pour une Salle a manger / les paneaux marquez A. et B. sont variez / 1; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 81

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