Le Prince, Jean Baptiste (Metz 1734 – St. Denis du Port 1781). Le Remouleur. The knife-grinder sharpening the ax of the carpenters. These themselves joining together the trunks for a blockhouse. Etching. (1767/68.) 16.2 x 18.4 cm.

Beall as addition to R 4, not in series. – On snow-white especially strong watermarked laid paper.

“ No pictorial record is known of these fociferous people (the Russian cries operating since the 16^th century) until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when English, French, German, and Russian artists all turned their attention to the city’s hawkers …

Foreign artists visited Russia as well and in 1757 the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Le Prince toured to Finland, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. His prints of Russian people published a few years later constitute

an  important  part  of  the  pictorial  record  of  the  time “

(Beall pp. 484 f.). – With subtext:

„ La Hache est le seul instrument dont se servent les Paysans et les Charpentiers pour construire entirement une maison de bois. “

Offer no. 14,695 / EUR  238. (c. US$ 308.) + shipping

“ I am pleased to inform you that I received the book in good order and it is very beautiful, I have looked at it now many times and it is very useful for my studies. ”

(Mevr. E. E., June 29, 2002)