Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Vue des environs de St. Petersbourg [print].

Accession number
PML 141253.11
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.
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 31.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 154 x 205 mm; sheet: 210 x 270 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a landscape, with, at left, a cart crossing a wooden bridge leading to a house on piles.
Classification
Department