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Catalogue: Social
The Highlander. This is the last and only Remains of the Roman Dress that at present exists in Europe. [&] A Highlander - Un Montagnard d'Ecosse.
Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t Sep.r 12th 1771 by M.Darly at No. 39. Strand. [&] Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t by M.Darly Oct 2.d 1771.
Pair of engravings, each c.210 x 160mm. Trimmed to plate, two repaired tears in second sheet.
A highlander wearing kilt & plaid (ie. tartan cloth slung over the shoulders) from front and rear. At the time of publication the anti-Jacobite 1746 Dress Act banning tartans as common wear was still in force. It was repealled in 1782.
[Ref: 1569] £180.00
(£211.50 incl.VAT)
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Reception Dress. Invented by Mrs. Bell No. 52. St. James's Street.
Drawn and Engraved exclusively for the World of Fashion June 1. 1824.
Etching with stipple. 209 x 165mm. 8¼ x 6½"
From The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons, published between 1824 and 1891.
[Ref: 14970] £45.00
(£52.88 incl.VAT)
Celari vult sua furta Venus. Tibull. 1 lib 2 eleg.
P.Schenk fec: et exc: Amstelod: C.P.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm.
[Ref: 5421] £260.00
Ista decens facies longis vitiabitur annis. Ovid. 3 Trist.
P.Schenk fec: et exc. Amstelod. cum Privil.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm.
[Ref: 5425] £260.00
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