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1920

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2016

2026

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Album, Album of Architectural Prints

This is a Album. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger, François de Cuvilliés the Elder and Giovanni Paolo Gaspari and published by François de Cuvilliés the younger and print maker: François de Cuvilliés the younger, Valerian Funck, Johann Nepomuk Maag and Joseph Kaltner. It is dated ca. 1770 and we acquired it in 1920. 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 has the following markings

Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 82

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Architectural Prints; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger (German, 1731 - 1777), François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768), Giovanni Paolo Gaspari (1714 – 1775); Print Maker: Joseph Kaltner (German, ca. 1758 - after 1824), Johann Nepomuk Maag, Valerian Funck; Germany; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-286

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