Accession number:
PML 88592.1-3
Published:
France : s.n., 19th century?
Description:
3 sheets : col. ill. (etching) ; 10.5 x 47.8 cm ; 9.5 x 63.5 cm ; 6 x 63.5 cm
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Three long, hand-colored, etched strips, illustrated with various pastoral scenes. The images depict people dancing, playing the flute, picking fruit, proposing, gardening, and feeding chickens. Below the scenes, a border of flowers and scroll work.
Housed with two other French prints (PML 88591.1-2)
"Made in France"--stamped on verso of the sheet.
The prints might have been used to decorate boxes or for border decorations on wallpaper.
One of the strips has been cut out along the top, following the outlines of the figures.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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