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Creator:
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
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
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
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:
Lithographs.
Stipple engravings.
Hand coloring.
Contributors:
Orme, Edward, 1775–1848, publisher.
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