Accession number
PML 140117.2
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1774 ([182- restrike]).
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
One of 5 plates by Le Prince depicting the five senses.
Library owns 3 of the 5 prints in this series: Le goût, L'odorat, and Le toucher.
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 141253); this print bound into the volume as plate 4.
One of 5 plates by Le Prince depicting the five senses.
Library owns 3 of the 5 prints in this series: Le goût, L'odorat, and Le toucher.
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 141253); this print bound into the volume as plate 4.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 139 x 91 mm; plate mark: 159 x 103 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an old woman seated outside the mouth of a tent, holding a frying pan over a brazier and and presenting a piece of food on a spoon to a boy standing before her, and accompanied by two other children.
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