Accession number
PML 140117.17
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 people of various nations in traditional costume.
Signed and dated on plates; lettered with titles, with dedication to Pajou by Le Prince on title plate.
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). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound into the volume as plates 39 (title plate), 48, 49, 50, 51, 52.
Signed and dated on plates; lettered with titles, with dedication to Pajou by Le Prince on title plate.
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). The plates comprising this set do not appear in order in the volume, being bound into the volume as plates 39 (title plate), 48, 49, 50, 51, 52.
Description
6 prints : etchings ; image: 94 x 60 mm or smaller; sheets: 299 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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