please don't steal our pictures, yeah?

This print is etching and black ink on white laid paper with the following markings: watermark, mostly illegible: jug (?). Its dimensions are: 34 x 22.6 cm (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.) Platemark/repeat: 27.7 x 19.5 cm (10 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.) Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.).

It is inscribed Inscribed in plate, lower margin: Le Petit Cote de Escallier de Voorst invente et conduit par D. Moarot avec Previllege des Etats Generaux des/ Provinces Vrie et d'Hollande et We. frise..

This print is from France and dated ca. 1700.

Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund. This object came to our collection as a Purchase, in 1988.

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<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18628569/ |title=Print, "Trompe l'Oeil Painting, Decoration for the Staircase, De Voorst, The Netherlands, Plate from "Nouveaux livres de peintures de salles et d'Escaliers"", ca. 1700 |author=Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |accessdate=20 May 2013 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>

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