6 Antique Prints-ITALY-FASHION-HISTORICAL COSTUME-VENICE-CORSICA-Wahlen-1844

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Jeune Femme de Nettuno. Femmes de Frosolone. Jeune Fille de Salerne. Porteuse d’Eau a Venise. Paysan Calabrais. Corse. – Six handcoloured prints showing people from various places in Italy, in traditional costume. Women from Nettuno, Frosolone, Salerno, and a woman carrying water from Venice. A Calabrian peasant and a Corsican man (holding a musket) complete the group.

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‘Jeune Femme de Nettuno. Femmes de Frosolone. Jeune Fille de Salerne. Porteuse d’Eau a Venise. Paysan Calabrais. Corse.’

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 x 18 cm. (4,7 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, and with a few small stains. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ITALY-FASHION-HISTORICAL COSTUME-VENICE-CORSICA

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Dimensions 26 × 16 × 1 cm

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