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Roman Costumes; Drawn from Nature

Costume Plate
1820 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Title page to a set of plates illustrating contemporary costume and scenes in Italy. Quarter bound in green leather, marbled boards. Lettered with artists' and publishers' names and dated.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleRoman Costumes; Drawn from Nature (series title)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph
Brief description
Bartolomeo Pinelli and Charles Hullmandel. One of 21 plates, including title page, of Roman costumes and contemporary life. Italian, 1820.
Physical description
Title page to a set of plates illustrating contemporary costume and scenes in Italy. Quarter bound in green leather, marbled boards. Lettered with artists' and publishers' names and dated.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 34.29cm
  • Size of volume width: 46.36cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO 1963
Marks and inscriptions
(Lettered with artists' and publishers' names and dated)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection
Accession number
E.2770-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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