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Calmouk [print].

Accession number
PML 140117.19
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n.], 1771.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
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 41.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 209 x 162 mm; plate mark: 239 x 182 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A Kalmyk warrior, whole-length, turned to left, armed with lance, bow and quiver; he points to the left; in the background, at right, several warriors conversing.
Classification
Department