Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Blank cartouche in Rococo style topped with an allegory of genius holding a laurel wreath and a trumpet. Torches, banners, and a ram's head provide further decoration. Putto figure at lower left. A globe, banner, and stringed musical instruments (cello and harp) at lower right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Print Maker
- Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwierth, German, 1720–1790
- Publisher
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Date
- 1738
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.3 × 18.8 cm (11 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
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