Accession number
PML 141253.5
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1765 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Etched title plate and 5 etchings depicting life in Russia.
Library has only 4 of 6 plates comprising this suite; missing Hédou nos. 9 ("Coiffure des filles et des femmes en Eté") and 10 ("Retour de la promenade").
Library's set 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). Plates do not appear in order in the volume, being bound in as plates 13 (the title plate), 15, 20, and 21.
Library has only 4 of 6 plates comprising this suite; missing Hédou nos. 9 ("Coiffure des filles et des femmes en Eté") and 10 ("Retour de la promenade").
Library's set 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). Plates do not appear in order in the volume, being bound in as plates 13 (the title plate), 15, 20, and 21.
Description
6 prints : etchings ; image: 176 x 235 mm or smaller; sheets: 270 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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