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Femme des environs de Moscou [print].

Accession number
PML 140117.30
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.
No. 3 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. 63.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 99 x 68 mm; plate mark: 120 x 83 mm; sheet: 299 x 209 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a woman, whole-length, turned to right and looking to left, wearing a stripped turban and long, unbuttoned tunic over dress; in the background, a stall at left, and four figures unloading a sleigh.
Classification
Department