Accession number
PML 140117.6
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.
Caption continues: La Hache est le seul instrument dont se servent les Paysans et les Charpentiers pour construire entierement une maison du bois.
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 12.
Caption continues: La Hache est le seul instrument dont se servent les Paysans et les Charpentiers pour construire entierement une maison du bois.
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 12.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 125 x 168 mm; plate mark: 162 x 183 mm; sheet: 210 x 299 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows three Russian men sharpening an axe on a grindstone; behind them, three men are building a wooden house, and a fourth man is sleeping against the house's wall.
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