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Colonel du corps des Strelits [print].

Accession number
PML 140117.20
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1764 ([182- restrike])
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
No. 2 of 8 plates comprising the suite of etchings by Le Prince published under the title "Les Strelits".
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); this print bound into the volume as plate 42.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 178 x 121 mm; plate mark: 230 x 146 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a Colonel from the Streltsi militia, whole-length, facing front and looking to right, with right hand resting on cane; with plumed hat, and fur-line coat worn over tunic.
Classification
Department