Accession number
PML 141253.17
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1770 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
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 37.
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 37.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 135 x 174 mm; plate mark: 160 x 200 mm; sheet: 210 x 270 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a rustic interior with, at right, children playing around and inside a large masonry oven; at left, a woman is doing laundry in a wooden vat.
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