Accession number
PML 140117.1
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1764 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Full dedication on title plate reads: Dediés à Monsieur Boucher, peintre du roy, recteur en son Académie royale de peinture et sculpture et surinspecteur de la Fabrique des gobelins. Par son très humble et très obeissant serviteur et son eleve Le Prince.
Etched title plate and 9 etchings depicting life in Russia.
The 1st state, before numbering. Cf. Hedou.
Library's set forms part of a bound album containing 72 collected etchings by Le Prince, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 140117). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound in as plates 2 (the title plate), 8, 13, 14, 28, 29, 37, 70, 71, and 72.
Etched title plate and 9 etchings depicting life in Russia.
The 1st state, before numbering. Cf. Hedou.
Library's set forms part of a bound album containing 72 collected etchings by Le Prince, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 140117). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound in as plates 2 (the title plate), 8, 13, 14, 28, 29, 37, 70, 71, and 72.
Description
10 prints : etchings ; image: 160 x 230 mm or smaller; sheets: 270 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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