Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for the doors of a carriage entrance. The doors are decorated with ornament motifs including portrait relief, putti, flowers, and rocaille elements. The plate is numbered but not signed.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Print Maker
- Karl Albert von Lespilliez, 1723–1796
- Publisher
- Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
- Date
- 1745
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 35.8 x 23.6 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
- Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Type
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