Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- In landscape, large rocaille formation on ground, merman putto holds spear and with right hand gestures toward cartouche, framed by rocaille design depicting spears. On right, columned structure. Above, merman putto sits atop fountain structure in rocaille motif; above this, putto sits holding vase spewing water and trellis-like element reaching to the right structure, with hanging putto.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Print Maker
- Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German, 1723 - 1796
- Publisher
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Date
- 1738–45
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Engraving, etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 38.9 x 27.9 cm (15 5/16 x 11 in.)
- Platemark: 34.4 x 21.1 cm (13 9/16 x 8 5/16 in.)
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
