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This and 149 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists.

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Print, Designs for Two Gueridons and a Wall Bracket with a Vase

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez and published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly. 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 23.3 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: 11me. Livre / LIVRE DORNEMENTS, INVENTE / par François de Cuvilliés, Conseiller, ét premier / Architecte de S.A.S.E. de Baviere. / se vend chez lauteur. / Gravéz par C.A. de Lespilliez.; Printed upper right, in plate: L.; 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. / C.P.S.C.M.; Printed lower right, in plate: 1.; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 58

Cite this object as

Print, Designs for Two Gueridons and a Wall Bracket with a Vase; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Print Maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez (1723–1796); Published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758); Germany; etching and engraving on off-white laid paper; Platemark: 35.8 x 23.3 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-59

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