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Le basse cour [print].

Accession number
PML 141253.31
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1765 (182- restrike)].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed "J.B. Le Prince" directly below image at lower left; lettered with title.
An earlier proof state of this etching is signed en pointe and dated "1765". Cf. BM online catalog (museum no. 1859,1210.153).
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); bound into the volume as plate 69.
Description
1 print : etchings ; image: 112 x 91 mm; plate mark: 123 x 102 mm; sheet: 270 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a landscape with clump of trees at left, and a few peasants at the bottom of a Russian dovecote at right.
Classification
Department