Costume Of Turkey

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Artist/Maker	William Miller (publishers) Octavian Dalvimart (artist)
Place of origin	London (published)

Stipple engravings, coloured by hand, depicting an example of costume in Turkey, with descriptive text in English and in French. Full bound in green morocco. Each plate lettered variously 'Octavian Dalvimart, Delin.' or 'Octavian Dalvimart, delt.' and with engraver's name. There are no titles on the plates but each is numbered. Many of the plates are watermarked 'Ruse & Turner's 1805'.

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Category	Prints
Object type	Print
Titles	Costume Of Turkey (series title) An Inhabitant of the Coast of Syria (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Stipple, coloured by hand Paper Stipple Colouring
Brief description	Stipple engraving entitled 'An Inhabitant of the Coast of Syria', from a volume of 61 plates, after drawings by Octavian Dalvimart, entitled 'Costume Of Turkey', engraved by various artists, and published by William Miller. Great Britain, 1802.
Physical description	Stipple engravings, coloured by hand, depicting an example of costume in Turkey, with descriptive text in English and in French. Full bound in green morocco. Each plate lettered variously 'Octavian Dalvimart, Delin.' or 'Octavian Dalvimart, delt.' and with engraver's name. There are no titles on the plates but each is numbered. Many of the plates are watermarked 'Ruse & Turner's 1805'.
Dimensions	Size of covers height: 36.9cm Width: 26.4cm Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Marks and inscriptions	Publish'd January 1, 1802. by W.Miller, Old Bond Strt. London (Lettered)
Credit line	Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Subjects depicted	Turkish Costume Dress
Place depicted	Turkey
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	SP.182:24

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O515153/costume-of-turkey-print-octavian-dalvimart/

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