Accession number
PML 141253.22
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1775 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
One of 5 plates by Le Prince depicting the five senses.
Printed in brown ink.
Library owns 3 of the 5 prints in this series: Le Goût, L'odorat, and Le toucher.
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 42.
One of 5 plates by Le Prince depicting the five senses.
Printed in brown ink.
Library owns 3 of the 5 prints in this series: Le Goût, L'odorat, and Le toucher.
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 42.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 135 x 91 mm; plate mark: 165 x 108 mm; sheet: 270 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a doctor taking the pulse of an old woman seated in an armchair at right; in the background, at left, a young couple embraced in a doorway.
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