Print, Design for Cartouche with Central Vignette

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly 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: 35.7 x 23.1 cm (14 1/16 x 9 1/8 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: 9me. Livre; Printed upper right, in plate: I.; Printed lower center, in plate: MORCEAUX DE / CAPRICCES, PROPRE / A DIVERS USAGES; INVENTES / PAR FRACOIS CUVILLIES, PREMIER / ARCHITECTE DE S.A.S.E. DE BEVIERE. / SE TROUVE CHEZ LAUTEUR; Printed lower left, in plate: C.P.S.C.M.; Printed lower center, in plate: Se vend aussi a Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St. / Iacque a limage St. Benoit Avec Privilege du Roy.; Printed lower right, in plate: 1.; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 50

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