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Vue des environs de St. Petersbourg [print].

Accession number
PML 141253.12
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1764 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
Caption continues: Dédié à Monsieur de Mongeroux Trésorier Général de la Maison du Roy. Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Le Prince.
1st state, before plate number.
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 32.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 132 x 209 mm; plate mark: 155 x 220 mm; sheet: 210 x 270 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a landscape with, at center, a wooden house; in the foreground, a few ducks swimming in a pool; haystack in the background at left.
Classification
Department