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This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Georg Siegmond Roesch 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: 35.7 x 23.4 cm (14 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Inventé par F. de Cuvilliés; Lettered lower right, in plate: gravé par Georg Sig.Roesch

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: 2me. Livre; Printed upper right, in plate: B; Printed center, in plate: Morceaux / de Caprice A / divers usages. / Inventé par François / de Cuvilliés Conseiller / et Architecte de / Sa Majesté / Imperialle. se / vend chez /Lauteur.; Printed lower center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M. / Se vend a Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St. Iacque a limage St. Benoit Avec Privilege du Roy; Printed lower right, in plate: 1

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