3 Antique Prints-COSTUME-WALLACHIA-ROMANIA-Wahlen-1844

€125.00

Dorobautz (Valachie) – Homme de la Montagne (Valachie) – Jeune Fille Valaque. – Three handcoloured images of Wallachian people in historic costume. Wallachia is a region in modern Romania. One seems to be a nobleman. The second is a ‘Mountain Man’, dressed in a thick skin to fend off the cold. The third is a young woman.

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Description

‘Dorobautz (Valachie) – Homme de la Montagne (Valachie) – Jeune Fille Valaque.’

Handcoloured lithograph, heightened with Arabic gum on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 16,7 x 26,1 cm. (6,6 x 10,3 inch). Image size: 10 x 17 cm. (3,9 x 6,7 inch).

From the Europe volume of “Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples de Monde” by Auguste Wahlen. This was published in Paris: Poiree, Pilout, Duterte and Martinon, 1844.

Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Auguste Wahlen’. Author: Auguste Wahlen. Various artists are responsible for the illustrations, most notably Evrard Duverger, L. Markaert and R. King.

Condition: Good, given age. The margins faintly browned. Some faint ghosting around the image, from the opposite text page in the book. Soem faint scattered foxing. A small stain in the lower right corner of the young woman. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: COSTUME-WALLACHIA-ROMANIA

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