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The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings

1807

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The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings /, London : Published by Edward Orme ... 59, New Bond Street, 1807, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
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  • Title(s)

    The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799 by Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta.

  • Additional Title(s)

    Costumes de l'Indostan, dessinés dans l'Inde en 1798 et 1799, et représentés en soixante planches enluminées

  • Published/Created

    London : Published by Edward Orme ... 59, New Bond Street, 1807.
    [London] : Printed by J. Hayes, Dartmouth-Street, Westminster

  • Physical Description

    [132] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    Folio A 2022 54
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Copyright Status

    Public Domain

  • Full Alma Record

    https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9937104393408651

  • Classification

    Books

  • Notes

    Date of publication appears after manufacturer information.
    Lithographed by Scott and J. Vivares, after Balt. Solvyns.
    The plates were previously published in the author's A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings descriptive of the manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos. Calcutta, 1796-99. cf. R. Colas, Bibl. générale du costume, col. 983.
    Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 429
    BAC Folio A 2022 54: The Abbey copy. Plates are hand-colored. Bound in publisher's brown paper boards; paper title label on front cover cut to the outline of a stipple engraved design of an elephant.

  • Subject Terms

    Clothing and dress -- India -- 18th century.

  • Form/Genre

    Hand coloring. | Lithographs. | Stipple engravings.

  • Contributors

    Orme, Edward, 1775–1848, publisher.

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