Accession number
PML 141253.28
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1768 (182- restrike)].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered with caption title and suite title within the design, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 141253); with plate number "1" at upper right.
No. 1 (title plate) of 6 plates comprising the suite of etchings by Le Prince published under the title "IIe suitte [sic] d'habillements de diverses nations". Cf. Hédou.
Forms part of a bound album containing 69 collected etchings by Le Prince; bound into the volume as plate no. 63.
No. 1 (title plate) of 6 plates comprising the suite of etchings by Le Prince published under the title "IIe suitte [sic] d'habillements de diverses nations". Cf. Hédou.
Forms part of a bound album containing 69 collected etchings by Le Prince; bound into the volume as plate no. 63.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 98 x 70 mm; plate mark: 121 x 85 mm; sheet: 270 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a woman, whole-length, facing front, with crescent-shaped hat and tunic fastened with belt, pointing at an unrolled parchment with the title of the suite of prints hung on a wall at left; two women wearing similar clothes sit on this wall; other figures gathered behind a fence in the background.
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