2 Antique Prints-SWEDEN-COSTUME-FASHION-TORNA HUNDRED-Wahlen-1844

2 Antique Prints-SWEDEN-COSTUME-FASHION-TORNA HUNDRED-Wahlen-1844

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Femme de Torna-Harad – Paysan de Jerfso. Homme de Harntad-Harad – Femme de Wemmentrogs-Harad. – Two handcoloured images showing figures in traditional Swedish costume. The first shows a woman from the Torna Hundred and a peasant from Jerfso (unidentified). The other print shows a man from Harntad-Harad (Herrestad Hundred?) and a woman from the Vemmenhog Hundred (all in Skane).

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‘Femme de Torna-Harad – Paysan de Jerfso. Homme de Harntad-Harad – Femme de Wemmentrogs-Harad.’

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 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. Faintly browned. A few small stains in the margins. Faint offsetting from the opposite text page in the book. The Torna-Harad print with a dampstain in the top right margin corner. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: SWEDEN-COSTUME-FASHION-TORNA HUNDRED

PCO-C10-43

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Dimensions 26 × 16 × 1 cm

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