Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1731–68
name: label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777
label: Print Maker
content: François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
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 of book of designs for portions of ceilings and for ceramic woodburning stoves. Decorative border along bottom and right edges. At lower right corner, a scene of putti figures fishing from shore, a waterbird below them. Within the frame at left, a farm scene depicting a woman and a cow. Along borders at bottom and right, groups of tools, styled as a trophy.
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
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-282-78
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