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Livre D'Ornements...
François de Cuvilliés1745
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Three designs with individual captions.
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- Title: Livre D'Ornements...
- Creator: Jean-François Cuvilliés
- Creator Lifespan: 1698/1768
- Date Created: 1745
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Léon Decloux (D. 80 and 81)
- Inscribed: On plate, upper center: 11me. Livre; upper center, in the image: LIVRE DORNEMENTS, INVENTE/par François de Cuvilliés, Conseiller, ét premier/Architecte de S.A.S.E. de Baviere./se vend chez lauteur./Gravéz par C.A. de Lespilliez.; upper right: L.; lower center: Se vend aussi a Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St./Iacque a limage St. Benoit Avec Privilege du Roy./C.P.S.C.M.; lower right: 1.
- Dimensions: Platemark: 35.8 x 23.3 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.)Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
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