Accession number
PML 140117.10
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 140117); this print bound into the volume as plate 25.
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 140117); this print bound into the volume as plate 25.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 141 x 94 mm; plate mark: 161 x 103 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a seated woman smelling flowers and looking at a servant standing at right, beside a perfume-burner.
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