Accession number:
PML 140117.18
Published:
[Paris : s.n.], 1765 ([182- restrike)
Description:
6 prints : etchings ; image: 176 x 235 mm or smaller; sheets: 299 x 209 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Etched title plate and 5 etchings depicting life in Russia.
Library has only 4 of 6 plates comprising this suite; missing Hédou nos. 9 ("Coiffure des filles et des femmes en Eté") and 10 ("Retour de la promenade").
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 140117). Plates do not appear in order in the volume, being bound in as plates 15, 34, 35, and 40 (the title plate).
Variant Title:
Divers habillements des peuples du nord
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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