book of prints;
print
- Museum number
- 1887,1010.52.1-20
- Description
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'Costumes du XVIIIe siècle ajustements & coiffures d'après les dessins de Watteau fils, Leclerc, Desrais, Cochin, etc. tirés de la collection de M. Victorien Sardou 20 eaux-fortes de A. Guillaumot fils 1re série tirés chez Chardon Ainé' (Paris: H. Cacgnon) 1875; containing 20 hand-coloured etchings by Guillaumot after various artists, showing half-length female figures with fashionable hats and hairstyles; bound with second part showing whole-lenght figures (see curator's comment). Together with title-page printed in red and black, devices of C. Motteroz and H. Cagnon, and list of illustrations. Bound at the British Museum bindery in green leather, with raised bands and gold lettering at the spine, marbled endpapers.
Etching, some hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1875
- Dimensions
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Height: 344 millimetres (approx. size of each sheet)
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Two parts/sets of prints bound together, each with a title-page and list of illustrations and 20 plates, the first set showing half-lenght image of hats; the second part showing whole-length figures. Catalogued separately due to different registration numbers, see 1887,1010.53.1-20 for the second set.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Costumes du XVIIIe siècle
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1887,1010.52.1-20