The Stove | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M9950
People: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French (Metz 1734 - 1781 Saint-Denis-du-Port)
Title: The Stove
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Le Poêle
Former Title: The Polish Lamp
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1770
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/265022

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Etching and lift ground aquatint on off-white laid paper
Technique: Etching and aquatint
Dimensions: Image: 13.5 × 17.4 cm (5 5/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
Plate: 15.9 × 20.3 cm (6 1/4 × 8 in.)
Sheet: 16.7 × 20.4 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Horace M. Swope, St. Louis and New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: IFF, vol XIV, no. 153, p. 475; Hédou, no. 164, p. 169; B 29

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Horace M. Swope, Class of 1905
Accession Year: 1940
Object Number: M9950
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Antony Griffiths, "Notes on early Aquatint in England and France", Print Quarterly, Print Quarterly Publications (London, September 1987), Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.255-270, repr. as fig. 180 on p. 261 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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M9950: The Stove