Print, Designs for Two Dressers, Elevations and Plans

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and engraved by Karl Albert von Lespilliez. It is dated 1745 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching, 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: 36.5 x 24.3 cm (14 3/8 x 9 9/16 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 C.A. de Lespilliez

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: 6me. Livre / Livre de diferents dessein de Comodes, dont les ornaments sont suposez être de Bronse / doré, et dont les Plans des Tablettes de marbre, sont marquez au dessous de chacunes des dts. / Comodes. Nouvellement jnventées, par François de Cuvilliés, Architecte de Sa Majesté Imperialle.; Printed upper right, in plate: F; Printed center, in plate: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qui fait / la Couronement de la Comode Sy dessus.; Printed lower center, in plate: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qui fait / la Couronement de la Comode Sy dessus.; Printed lower center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M. / 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: 32

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