Accession number
PML 140117.8
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1768 ([182- restrike]).
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; 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 19.
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 19.
Description
1 print : etching with aquatint ; image: 176 x 135 mm; plate mark: 223 x 150 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a rustic interior with a seated Russian man (the carter), seen from behind, conversing with a young woman (the milkmaid, shown with a large jug at her side) seated before him; behind them, a bearded man leans on a barrel and looks on as he smokes a pipe.
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