Accession number
PML 141253.27
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1765 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Etched title plate and 5 etchings people of various nations in traditional costume.
Signed and dated on plates; lettered with titles, with dedication to Pajou by Le Prince on title plate.
Library has plates no. 1, 4, 5, 6 only; missing plates 2 ("Juif polonais") and 3 ("Femme juive polonaise").
Library's set forms part of a bound album containing 68 collected etchings by Le Prince, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 141253). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound into the volume as plates 64, 65, 66, 67 (title plate).
Signed and dated on plates; lettered with titles, with dedication to Pajou by Le Prince on title plate.
Library has plates no. 1, 4, 5, 6 only; missing plates 2 ("Juif polonais") and 3 ("Femme juive polonaise").
Library's set forms part of a bound album containing 68 collected etchings by Le Prince, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 141253). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound into the volume as plates 64, 65, 66, 67 (title plate).
Description
6 prints : etchings ; image: 94 x 60 mm or smaller; sheets: 270 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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