Author: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812)
Title: [Antique title page, ca. 1755/71] Man smoking a pipe / Titelprent met pijprokende man [Seconde suite des Figures...], published ca. 1755-1771, 1 p.
Description: Man seated on some rocks, smoking a pipe. His elbows are resting on a larger rock with the title of the set of prints this etching was meant to introduce.Titled: 'Seconde suite des Figures dessinees et gravees Par P. J. Loutherbourg Peintre du Roy'. Inscribed on plate, below image: 'Se vend a Paris chez Lenfant rue Poissonnière au coin du Boulevards Maison de Mr. Robert Peintre en Carrosses Et chez Niquet place Maubert , près la rue des Lavandières' numbered upper right: 'No. 1.' Etching on paper with margins; plate mark: 120 x 85 mm, total: 168 x 181 mm; last state; some foxing affecting the margins especially; mounted in passepartout; Baudicour II.240.1, Weigel 7141, Nagler 26.

Keywords: Farmers|Frontispiece|Male|Tobacco