Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two designs for upright rocaille panels. Left panel: scrollowork and vegetative ornamentation with a central cartouche. Within cartouche, an architectural ruin. Surrounding it, a satyr and male figure. Right panel: within central cartouche, a landscape scene with a lion's mask below. At bottom, a putto figure holding a staff.
- 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
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 35.3 × 22.7 cm (13 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
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