Design for Wainscoting with a Double Door
date: label: Date
content: 1745
name: label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
label: Print Maker
content: Karl Albert von Lespilliez, 1723–1796
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for panelling on a set of double doors, featuring ornament motifs including scrolls, shells, and mascaron. On either side and above the doors are tapestries of paintings, depicting landscape scenes with figures (on the sides) and Venus emerging from the sea (at top).
place: label: made in
content: Germany
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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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: 1921-6-285-87
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 35.6 x 23.3 cm (14 x 9 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)