Accession number
PML 140117.7
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1765 ([182- restrike]).
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Etched title plate and 5 etchings depicting Russian street vendors.
Library's copy includes only 4 of the 6 prints comprising the published suite; missing the title plate (Hédou no. 36) and "La marchande de pain" (Hédou no. 40).
Library's set 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). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound into the volume as plates 18, 21, 22, 23.
Library's copy includes only 4 of the 6 prints comprising the published suite; missing the title plate (Hédou no. 36) and "La marchande de pain" (Hédou no. 40).
Library's set 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). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound into the volume as plates 18, 21, 22, 23.
Description
6 prints : etchings ; image: 189 x 160 mm or smaller; sheets: 299 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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