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Print, Design for Fountain with an Anchor
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: 35.9 x 23.5 cm (14 1/8 x 9 1/4 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
On plate, upper right: B; lower left: Inventé par F. de Cuvilliés; lower center: C.P.S.C.M.; lower right: gravé par Georg Sig. Roesch/4
Cite this object as
Print, Design for Fountain with an Anchor; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Print Maker: Georg Siegmond Roesch; Published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758); France; etching and engraving on off-white laid paper; Platemark: 35.9 x 23.5 cm (14 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-11
