Original eighteenth-century line engraving with a woman in a hood seated at a table, counting coins beside an open account book and a basket of vegetables: the housewife, one of the domestic subjects that did so well in the French printmaking of the period. Engraved by Pierre Louis Surugue.
Original eighteenth-century line engraving with a woman in a hood seated at a table, counting coins beside an open account book and a basket of vegetables: the housewife, one of the domestic subjects that did so well in the French printmaking of the period. Engraved by Pierre Louis Surugue.
Medium: Line engraving
Engraver / lithographer: Pierre Louis Surugue
Date: 18th century
Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.8 in (14.6 x 14.7 cm)
Condition: Fair; trimmed to the edge of the image, without margins or lettering, and mounted on paper; the inking is firm and the surface well preserved