Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Folio 7, plate 6 of series 6. Both designs for decorative rocaille panels cconsist of ornamental scrollwork. At the center of the left panel, a mountain landscape scene with two putti holding flowers in the clouds above. At the center of the right panel, a landscape scene with a seated female figure wearing a crown and holding a large obelisk. A putto holding a banner and another carrying a branch surround her.
- 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 on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 33.5 × 23 cm (13 3/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
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