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Italian portraits and costume studies, 1860s-70s

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Italian portraits and costume studies, 1860s-70s
Album containing forty-eight cartes-de-visite, thirty-five hand-tinted, occasional numbers in the negatives, loosely inserted in pre-cut arched-top window mounts with gilt borders, printed index page (blank), green morocco spine decorated in gilt and blind, diamond-pattern mother-of-pearl covers, diamond pattern repeated on gilt clasp (spine rubbed), g.e., 8vo.; with five carte-de-visite portraits and one art reproduction loosely inserted. (7)

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Subjects include spaghetti eaters (illus.), a bread-seller, women carrying woven fabrics on their heads, a girl milking a goat, pipe-players, a pick-pocket, women with their children and several portraits of women in traditional dress.
See colour illustration p. 16a

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