Accession number
PML 140117.27
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n., ca. 1767 (182- restrike)].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered with title.
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 59.
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 59.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 128 x 173 mm; plate mark: 161 x 186 mm; sheet: 210 x 299 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a Russian man selling a beverage, probably kvass, outside a wooden house; his stall is supported by barrels and he is talking to two customers seen from behind; at right, a man drinking in a cup; at left, a man seated beside another, who is sleeping on the bench.
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