Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1745
name: label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
label: Print Maker
content: Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German, 1723 - 1796
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
label: Publisher
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for third book of designs for panels. Architectural arch at center, below which is an armored figure figure flanked by lions and trophies. Palms, trees, and fantastical landscape in background; a horse bucking at the peak of a waterfall at left. Above, trumpeting angels and putti surround an obelisk. A sun shines at upper right; additional angels and putti support the frame which contains the title inscription.
place: label: made in
content: Munich, Germany
label: made in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-282-53
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper