Antique Costume Print Including Costumes of Greece, Spain, Peru and Others

Name: Antique Costume Print Including Costumes of Greece, Spain, Peru and Others
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12431-18
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Date: circa 1875
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 37.5 × 24 cm (14.8 × 9.4 in)
Condition: Fair. /good, age-related toning and some soiling. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-12431-18

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A sheet of European and other costumes, an original steel engraving with hand color from Blatter fur Costumekunde, historical and folk costumes drawn from authentic sources, published by Franz Lipperheide in Berlin about 1875. The plate is numbered at the upper right, and the publisher's name is engraved at the foot.

The sheet gathers many figures and details on one page in no single setting. Across the top stand Greek and Eastern European figures in embroidered jackets, and a porter with a pole over his shoulder. In the middle, a medieval nobleman in a long red robe and cloak faces a woman in a laced bodice with a feathered cap and a sword, and a hand and two ears are drawn as separate studies. Along the bottom are crowns and caps, and a group of three veiled women in long skirts, which the old listing identifies as the costume of Peru.

Lipperheide founded his Berlin publishing house in 1865 and issued the fashion magazine Modenwelt, and his lifelong collection of costume books later became the basis of the Lipperheide costume library in Berlin.

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