Name: 2 Antique Prints-NORTH AFRICA-BEDOUIN-TUAREG-COSTUME-FASHION-Wahlen-1844
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2 Antique Prints-NORTH AFRICA-BEDOUIN-TUAREG-COSTUME-FASHION-Wahlen-1844

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Arabe Bedouin. Guerrier de Tuarick. – Two handcoloured plates, showing figures from North Africa in traditional costume. The first shows a Bedouin Arab (with a musket), the other shows a Tuareg warrior.

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‘Arabe Bedouin. Guerrier de Tuarick.’

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: 11 x 18 cm. (4,3 x 7,1 inch).

From the Africa/America 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. Faintly browned, and with a few stains. The Bedouin quite stained (mostly outside image area). General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: NORTH AFRICA-BEDOUIN-TUAREG-COSTUME-FASHION

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