Accession number
PML 140117.21
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1768 (182- restrike)].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered with caption title and suite title within the design; with plate number "1" at upper right.
No. 1 (title plate) of 6 plates comprising the suite of etchings by Le Prince published under the title "IIe suitte [sic] d'habillements de diverses nations". Cf. Hédou.
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); bound into the volume as plate no. 44.
No. 1 (title plate) of 6 plates comprising the suite of etchings by Le Prince published under the title "IIe suitte [sic] d'habillements de diverses nations". Cf. Hédou.
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); bound into the volume as plate no. 44.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 98 x 70 mm; plate mark: 121 x 85 mm; sheet: 299 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a woman, whole-length, facing front, with crescent-shaped hat and tunic fastened with belt, pointing at an unrolled parchment with the title of the suite of prints hung on a wall at left; two women wearing similar clothes sit on this wall; other figures gathered behind a fence in the background.
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