FEMME DE MAROC DANS SA MAISON

Thomas Jefferys

Numéro d'objet:	22744
Catégorie:	Lithographie / Gravure / Eaux-Forte
Technique:	Gravure aquarellée
Origine:	Londres
Date:	1757
Support:	Papier à la cuve

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Habit of a Moorish woman in 1695

Habit of a Moorish Woman 1695. [From: M. de S. Olon, An Account of the Empire of Morocco...] A fine, original, hand-colored, copperplate engraved, costume plate, heightened with gum arabic. From: Thomas Jefferys, A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, Volume 3, London, 1772.

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Jefferys, A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern. (4 Volumes, London: 1757-1772) presented approximately 480 beautifully hand-colored plates of men and women of various times and countries all around the world, after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar, and others. The plates have been a major source for costume design in opera, ballet, theater ever since. The present example was in the library of Carton House, County Kildare, the Irish seat of the Fitzgerald family, Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster.