Lot 141
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[COSTUMES] A quarto album (305 x 235mm) containing 6 original pen-and-ink and watercolour designs of Italian subjects, unsigned and undated [mid 19th century], together with 39 hand-coloured engraved and lithographed costume plates extracted from various works (occasional light spotting and marginal staining), contemporary half morocco gilt (rubbed).

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[COSTUMES] A quarto album (305 x 235mm) containing 6 original pen-and-ink and watercolour designs of Italian subjects, unsigned and undated [mid 19th century], together with 39 hand-coloured engraved and lithographed costume plates extracted from various works (occasional light spotting and marginal staining), contemporary half morocco gilt (rubbed).

Lot Essay

Five of the original drawings are captioned in pencil: "Villa Battessa," "Roccaforte Calabria," "Villa S. Piovanni," "Francescana," and (?) "Jacvamendista." The engraved and lithographed plates are extracted from works by Gaetano Dura, H. Greeven and Salvatore Marroni, and from The Military Costume of Turkey (London, 1818).

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