Name: 3 Antique Prints-GREAT BRITAIN-COSTUME-SMUGGLER-ALDERMAN-CHIEF-Wahlen-1844
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3 Antique Prints-GREAT BRITAIN-COSTUME-SMUGGLER-ALDERMAN-CHIEF-Wahlen-1844

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Alderman – Smogleur (Grande-Bretagne) – Chef de Clan (Ecosse). – These three handcoloured images show figures in traditional costume from Great Britain. The first shows an Alderman, leader of the municipal council. The second shows a smuggler waving a flag at a ship offshore, and the third shows a Scottish clan chief.

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‘Alderman – Smogleur (Grande-Bretagne) – Chef de Clan (Ecosse).’

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: 12,5 x 18 cm. (4,9 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 alderman with a brown line from the top margin to the top edge of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: GREAT BRITAIN-COSTUME-SMUGGLER-ALDERMAN-CHIEF

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