Accession number:
PML 141253.6
Published:
[Paris : s.n.], 1771 ([182- restrike])
Description:
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 209 x 162 mm; plate mark: 239 x 182 mm; sheet: 270 x 210 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
Printed in brown ink.
Forms part of a bound album containing 69 collected etchings by Le Prince, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 141253); this print bound into the volume as plate 16.
Note: The art of the French illustrated book 1700 to 1914 (New York : The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982) misidentifies this print as one of the 6 plates comprising Le Prince's "Suite de divers habillements des peuples du nord".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
A Kalmyk warrior, whole-length, turned to left, armed with lance, bow and quiver; he points to the left; in the background, at right, several warriors conversing.
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