Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Marriage costumes of various nations.

Published / Created:

[London] : Published by R. Ackermann, at his Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, London, [1824]

Physical Description:

[12] cards : color illlustrations ; 12 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GT510 .M37 1824
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Title from front cover of publisher's paper board case.

Date of publication from Ford.

Ford, J. Ackermann, p. 226

BAC: British Art center copy in original cardboard slipcase with printed green title page on front and reproduction of the Russian plate on verso.

12 hand-colored aquatint engravings of 12 brides and grooms wearing different marriage costumes; printed on card stock.

Contents:

Africans -- Austrians -- Hungarians -- Ilyrians -- Italians -- Poles -- Russians -- Scotch -- Spaniards -- Styrians -- Swiss -- Turks.

Subject Terms:

Costume -- Pictorial works. | Wedding costume -- Pictorial works.

Form/Genre:

Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1824.

Contributors:

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834, publisher.