Accession number
PML 140117.16
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.
Etching touched with small areas of aquatint in the background.
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 38.
Etching touched with small areas of aquatint in the background.
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 38.
Description
1 print : etching with aquatint ; image: 179 x 138 mm; plate mark: 218 x 153 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a tavern, with a Russian peasant seated on a bench and trying to embrace a young serving woman, who pushes him away; at left, three men drinking and observing the scene.
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