Accession number
PML 140117.9
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1767 ([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 20.
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 20.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 190 x 137 mm; plate mark: 224 x 146 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman standing out of doors and picking a flowering twig from shrub at right; a cottage stands in the background at left, and a man and a woman embrace in front of it as a third person looks on.
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