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Print, PLAN GÉOMETRAL D’UNE DÉCORATION DU FEU D’ARTIFICE PROJETE POUR NIMPHEMBOURG

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger and print maker: Valerian Funck and published by François de Cuvilliés the younger and retailed by Pierre-Francois Basan. It is dated 1771 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on 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.

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower center, below border: Inventé et dessiné par F. de Cuvilliés fils. gravé par Valerian Founck en 1771. se vend a Paris chez Basan et a Munich chez l’auteur

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, upper left corner: M; lettered upper center: PLAN GÉOMETRAL D’UNE DÉCORATION DU FEU D’ARTIFICE PROJETE POUR NIMPHEMBOURG/ Dédié à son Altesse Serenissime Electoralle de Baviere par son tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur de Cuvillies fils / Quart du Plan du Rez de Chaussée/ Quart du Plan a tous les niveaux; numbered upper right corner: 6; inscribed in graphite 5; lettered lower right: Pectus apollineo Pater hic fert lumine plenum/ Qun etiam est Patriae versus Apollo suae/ Per Campianillas quadruplex Quae stura notator/ Quae de diverso Nomine Nomen habet/ Lympharum saliens quid Denique Copia, fontes/ Et Cataracta velint dicere nose cupis:/ Flumina sunt bavaras cursu impraegnantua Terras/ Flumina divitus ambituosa suis; lettered lower left: Magnificum surgit Phaebi de Marmore Templum, / Augustumque micans spargit ubique Decus/ Octo colossaeis quas cernis stare, Columnis/ Electoratus octo notare potes/ In Templo Phaebi bavarum mirabere nonum/ Vincentem Radus sydere pulchra suis/ In summon bavvari nitet Electoris Imago,/ Quo Princeps Melio non fuit, est, nec erit

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Print, PLAN GÉOMETRAL D’UNE DÉCORATION DU FEU D’ARTIFICE PROJETE POUR NIMPHEMBOURG; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger (German, 1731 - 1777); Print Maker: Valerian Funck; Retailed by Pierre-Francois Basan (French, 1723 – 1797); Germany; etching and engraving on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-286-34

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