Accession number
PML 140117.12
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1765 (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 72 collected etchings by Le Prince, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 140117); bound into the volume as plate 31.
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 72 collected etchings by Le Prince, evidently restruck from the original plates some time in the 1820's (see PML 140117); bound into the volume as plate 31.
Description
1 print : etchings ; image: 112 x 91 mm; plate mark: 123 x 102 mm; sheet: 299 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
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