print

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.323
Title: Object: La belle fileuse
Description: The beautiful wool spinner, after Schenau: a young woman seated in a humble interior, holding a distaff and spinning wool with a spindle; on the right is a cupboard. 1763 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: René Gaillard; After: Johann Eleazar Schenau; Published by: René Gaillard
School/style: German; French
Production date: 1763
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 388 millimetres; Width: 270 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Plate advertised in 'Affiches, Annonces et Avis divers', 9 March 1763.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.323

Free entry