Accession number
PML 140117.28
Creator
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1770 (182- restrike)].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated on plate; lettered with title.
An illustration to Canto II of Coqueley de Chaussepierre's Le Roué Vertueux (Lausanne : s.n., 1770).
Forms part of a bound album containing 68 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 60.
An illustration to Canto II of Coqueley de Chaussepierre's Le Roué Vertueux (Lausanne : s.n., 1770).
Forms part of a bound album containing 68 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 60.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 147 x 98 mm; plate mark: 180 x 128 mm; sheet: 299 x 210 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a rustic interior with, at center, a workman holding a piece of paper and declaming verses, in the presence of a peasant standing at right and looking surprised; rustic furniture in the background.
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