Accession number
PML 141253.3
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1768 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
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 4.
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 4.
Description
1 print : etching with aquatint ; image: 176 x 135 mm; plate mark: 223 x 150 mm; sheet: 270 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a rustic interior with a seated Russian man (the carter), seen from behind, conversing with a young woman (the milkmaid, shown with a large jug at her side) seated before him; behind them, a bearded man leans on a barrel and looks on as he smokes a pipe.
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