Accession number
PML 5639.40
Published
A Paris : Chez N. Bonnart, rüe St. Jacques, à l'aigle, [169-].
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Title from item.
Four lines of verse in two columns below caption title: Je suis triste en un tems, en un autre charmante ... Où le fidéle Amant voit sa fidéle Amante.
Item no. 40 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
Four lines of verse in two columns below caption title: Je suis triste en un tems, en un autre charmante ... Où le fidéle Amant voit sa fidéle Amante.
Item no. 40 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 227 x 176 mm; plate mark: 270 x 192 mm; sheet: 302 x 219 mm
Summary
Print shows a woman in fashionable 17th century dress representing the element Earth, stepping down a small flight of stairs as she holds a rake; behind her sit a watering can, shovel, and a hare, and in the background at right, two planted containers and a stand of trees.
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