Books+ Search Results
The costume of the inhabitants of Russia
Title
The costume of the inhabitants of Russia.
Published
London : Published by J. Edington ..., [1810]
Physical Description
[2] p., [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in original brown paper covered boards, with publisher's printed title label.
Notes
Cover title, on publisher's engraved label: Sketches of the costume of Russia. Price 1.11.6.
The plates are copies of those by Sir Robert Ker Porter in his Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden ... 1809. Cf. Hiler.
Colored aquatints by Joseph Constantine Stadler; after Robert Ker Porter.
Date of publication from Hiler.
Variant and related titles
Sketches of the costume of Russia
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
The Chief of the Bashkirs
A Hackney sledge
Russian boors in their Winter Sledge
A Gentleman in his winter walking dress
A Russian trademan
A Russian tradesman's wife in her gala dress
A Russian tradesman's wife in her summer dress
A Russian nurse
A Russian peasant in his summer dress
A Russian peasant in her summer dress
A travelling Russian Boor
A Bohemian or Gypsy
A peasant of Finland in his Russian dress
A Dalecarlion peasant
A Dalecarlion female peasant
An Archimandrite in his ordinary habit
Monks of St Basil
Nuns of St Basil
An officer of the Donsky Cossacks
An officer of the Imperial Foot Guards
A soldier of the Imperial Foot Guards
A Bashkir trooper
A regular Cossac
A Kalmuc Horseman
An Uralsky Cossac
Kirghises.
References
Hiler, H. Bibliography of costume, p. 718
Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 2408
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1810.
Bookmark As
Citation
