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Historical Costume Illustrations

Colorful art showcasing various historical costumes from the theater and cultural depictions. Each piece reflects opulent textiles and elaborate designs from different eras.

Mr. Cartlich Cartlitch, as Tippoo Saib, 1829., 1829., London. Publisher, W. West. Cartlitch, John G., 1793-1875., 24 x 18.5 cm
Mr. Cartlich Cartlitch, as Tippoo Saib, 1829., 1829., London. Publisher, W. West. Cartlitch, John G., 1793-1875., 24 x 18.5 cm
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Artist: John Trumbull, American, 1756-1843, Hopothle Mico - of The Lalessee - King of theCreeks, Engraving, 22.2 × 14.3 cm (8 3/4 × 5 5/8in.), Made in United States, American, 18thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints
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Christophoros Asprakanites, Basilios, Johannes Anemas, Niketas Chalkoutres, Eustachios Stratigos. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Byzantium
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Miss Vincent as Morgiana, 1800., 1800 ., London. Publisher, M. Skelt. 1 art print, wood engraving, colored., 21.4 x 17 cm
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Doll - "Clarissa". Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 47.2 x 38.3 cm (18 9/16 x 15 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 7 3/4" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Rex F. Bush.
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Quilt. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 33.7 x 25.1 cm (13 1/4 x 9 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 115" square. Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ellen Duncan.
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Huascar, Thirteenth Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings Unknown. Huascar, Thirteenth Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings, Probably mid-18th century. Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 21 1/2in. (59.7 x 54.6cm). Although indigenous people ranked below Spaniards in Spanish Americas social order, direct descendants of pre-Hispanic nobility were afforded certain political privileges, including the right to hold office in local government. In order to legitimize claims to noble lineage in the viceroyalty of Peru, members of the Inca elite often conspicuously displayed in their homes Europeanized portraits of their ancestors, the fourteen ancient Andean rulers. The Inca had no pictorial portraiture tradition before the conquest. Soon after European contact, however, series of Inca kings painted by local artists in European portrait styles started to appear in indigenous and Creole inventories. This bust-length portrait series is based on a 1615 Spanish engraving (see illustration). Aunque los ind
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Portrait of Agnes of Bohemia, Bohemian duchess. Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), draughtsman, cartoonist
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Mme. Ida Rubinstein dans "La Pisanelle" (Prolouge). Aquanelle originale de M. Léon Bakst. D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938. Theater programs. 1913. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Rubinstein, Ida, 1885-1960
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Wooden Pocahontas Store Figure. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 52 x 38.6 cm (20 1/2 x 15 3/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Stanley Mazur.
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Foot Combat with Falchions, c.1512-1515, Freydal, The Book of Jousts and Tournament of Emperor Maximilian I: Combats on Foot (Volume III), pen and black ink with watercolor on laid paper, sheet: 32.8 × 26.2 cm (12 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.), German 16th Century (artist)
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King Mark. Costume design for the opera 'Tristan und Isolde' by R. Wagner by Roerich, Nicholas (1874-1947)/ State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow/ 1912/ Russia/ Watercolour, Gouache on Paper/ Symbolism/ 25,1x16/ Opera, Ballet, Theatre
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Pa. German Chalkware Woman on Horse. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 26.3 x 21.6 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.) Original IAD Object: 7" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mina Lowry.
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Knights in full armour, first half of the 16th century. They both wear helmets adorned with plumes, full plate armour, slashed skirts and sleeves, gauntlets and spurs. From a miniature by Nikolaus Glockendon in Aschaffenburg castle library. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.
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Hat game with General Boulanger
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San Acacio. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 36.9 x 27.9 cm (14 1/2 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 28"x22". Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and heightening on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Margery Parish.
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Miss Louis as Delha in Koulikhan. From the Surrey Theatre, 1829. London R. Lloyd. 24.5 x 19.5 cm
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Double Arm Swing, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes 1887 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. American Trade cards from the "Gymnastic Exercises" series (N77), issued in a set of 25 cards in 1887 to promote W. Duke Sons & Co. brand cigarettes. There are two versions of the series. All images are the same but the printed text is blue in one set and brown in the other.. Double Arm Swing, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes 421064
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Gunther XXI von Schwarzburg, King of Germany, Roemischer Koenig, 1304-1349. In splinted armour, tunic with coat of arms, great helm and escutcheon from his grave effigy in Frankfurt Cathedral. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C.R. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.
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E Boyd, Retablo Santa Rita, 1935 1942 Retablo-Santa Rita
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Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Glaiveman, costume sketch for Henry Irvings Planned Production of King Richard II, Watercolor, charcoal, White wove, 25.4 × 16.8 cm (10 × 6 5/8 in.), Made in United States, American, 19th century, Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
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Woman 17th century possibly Italian. Woman. possibly Italian. 17th century. Ivory. Sculpture-Miniature
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GRABADO-TIPO INDIO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.
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Harp in deer wood, vintage engraved illustration. From Natural Creation and Living Beings.
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Fisherman and Woman. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 29.7 x 22.6 cm (11 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mina Lowry.
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Woman of Shamakhy (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase) by Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893) / Russian State Library, Moscow / Book design / 1840 / Russia / Colour lithograph / Genre /
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Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon Loudon -, field marshal, Johann Hieronymus Delete Kohl -, publishing house
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Embroidery Au petit point (officer of the PoIIsh cavalry Krakusi) unknown
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Foot Combat with Halberds, c.1512-1515, Freydal, The Book of Jousts and Tournament of Emperor Maximilian I: Combats on Foot (Volume III), pen and black ink with watercolor over black chalk on laid paper, sheet: 33.9 × 26 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.), German 16th Century (artist)
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New Year's greetings from Tekla and Eugen Ösztreicher, P.F! Ösztreicher Tekla & Eugen (title on object), New Year's greeting, date, Ex libris is part of the cover with 64 ex libris on 34 loose insert sheets, a catalog and a text page., manufacturer: anonymous, after a design by: Kornél Révész (mentioned on object), Budapest, 1931, cliché in brown, paper, cliché, page: height 155 mm × width 104 mm, book, flowers, standing figure - AA - female human figure, folk costume, regional costume, Tekla Ösztreicher-Bakonyi, Eugen Ösztreicher
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Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Kings Page or Squire, costume sketch for Henry Irvings Planned Production of King Richard II, Watercolor, charcoal, graphite, with fabric, White wove, 35.4 × 25.2 cm (13 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.), Made in United States, American, 19th century, Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
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Knight, France, 16th Century, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.. Knight, France, 16th Century, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
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Copper engraving print by René Boyvin depicting a masked face, showing facial details, expression, and composition, 1550-1560.
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Turek z nargile. Karpiński, Bolesław (1879-1939), painter
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Maugowien warrior, 1843-1844, engraving by Adolphe Wahlen from the Customs and traditions of Asia.
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Allegorical wall painting of Spring from the west side of the atrium of Regio IX.V.11. She holds a basket of cheese and carries a lamb over her shoulders. Chromolithograph by J.G. Bach after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei (The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii), Leipzig, 1881.
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Portrait of Przemysław Leszek, according to a woodcut from: `Chronicle of the Poles` (Chronica Polonorum), by Maciej Miechowita, Kraków 1521, p. IX. Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), draughtsman, cartoonist, unknown, woodcutter
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Studio Portrait: Actor in Costume Wearing Long Beard, Japan 1860s-70s Unknown The carte de visite, a format comprised of an approximately 2 x 4 inch photograph mounted to card stock, was perhaps the most ubiquitous of nineteenth-century photographs. The French studio portrait photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri?first patented the carte in 1854. His innovation of exposing not just one but eight photographic images on the same glass plate negative enabled cartes to be made cheaply and reproduced on a mass scale. During the late 1850s and throughout the latter half of the century, these economical keepsakes depicting portraits of loved ones, celebrities, monarchs, and foreign types circulated en masse and spurred a veritable "cartomania." Collected in albums, traded among friends, and admired in drawing rooms, cartes put photography in the hands of virtually everyone, and thus offered a means of reflecting upon one’s own social standing in an ever-expanding world.. Studio Portrai
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Minstrel Puppet. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 35.7 x 28 cm (14 1/16 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 42 3/4" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Verna Tallman.
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Two Karikatural Figures, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, 1878 - 1944 drawing paper. pencil. watercolor (paint) brush caricatures (human types)
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Costume design for the opera The Tales of Hoffmann by J. Offenbach by Vasilyev, Alexander Alexandrovich (*1958) A. Pushkin Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg 1988 Watercolour, Gouache on Paper Russia Theatrical scenic painting Opera, Ballet, Theatre
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Historia. Siglo XIII. Sobrevesta, túnica sin mangas colocada sobre la cota de malla que cubría al caballero medieval.
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MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 34. Candoshi-Shapra Indian man carrying a bag. Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.
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Aylmer de Valence, Second Earl of Pembroke (1275-1324). Mounted knight in plate armour with armorial surcoat, chapelle de fer and greaves, lance, shield and sword. Helmet with swan-head crest and cointisse scarf. Horse in striped caparison. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.
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Cigar Store Indian. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 55.7 x 35 cm (21 15/16 x 13 3/4 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Robert Pohle.
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MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Zambo woman. Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.
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Sablia. Ris. Akad. F. Solntsev. Khromolitografiia F. Dregera., 1849 - 1853, by F. G. Solntsev, featuring watercolor by Acad. F. Solntsev and chromolithography by F. Dreher. Issued in Moskva by Tip. A. Semena. The work includes chromolithographs and is related to Russian art
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Wooden Doll. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 30.1 x 22.5 cm (11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 3 7/8" high; 7/8" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Evelyn Bailey.
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A Roman gladiator. After an early 20th century chromolithograph.
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From 1746 to 1749, the Swedish ship Gotha Lejon sailed on a mercantile mission to Canton. Several accounts of what transpired have survived. A handwritten journal has been attributed to Carl Fredrik von Schantz (1727-92). Another account of the mission of Gotha Lejon was compiled by Carl Johan Gethe (1728-65), a cartographer and natural historian. His diary is titled 'Diary of a Journey to East India begun on 18 October 1746 and ending June 20, 1749'. The Swedish East India Company (Swedish: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet or SOIC) was founded in 1731 in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the purpose of conducting trade with the Far East, and grew to become the largest trading company in Sweden during the 18th century. It closed in 1813.
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Image of the, by the Royal Utrecht Factory of Silver Works C.J. Desirable, harness of Franz Khevenhüller Zu Aichelberg, Chamberlain of Emperor Ferdinand I, Knight in the Order of St. Joris, which during the Maskerade Propocht, on the occasion of the 52nd lustrum of the University (June 22 - 1896) with the theme The participants in the Ridderhof game in Vienna in 1560 was supported by C.G.W.F. van Vredenburch.
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Wild, Franz .
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A servant ironing clothes. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
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Mode, Kleidung, Trachten in Polen, um das 19. Jahrhundert, links eine Bäuerin im Mantel, rechts ein Bauer in Tracht, beide aus Lowicz im Gouvernement ...
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Musket-Proof Half Armor of King Philip III (Media Armadura a Prueba de Mosquete del Rey Felipe III). Juan (Jean) Laurent; French, active in Spain, 1816-1886. Date: 1863-1873. Dimensions: 34.6 × 25.1 cm (image/paper); 49 × 38 cm (mount). Albumen print. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, FLORENCIA, USA.
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Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, work, Seated peasant woman from St Andre and back exercise of the same woman, painting, 32 cm x 25 cm
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David de Brimeu, Seigneur de Ligny, d. 1451. Chromolithograph from Loredan Larchey's Ancien Armorial Equestre de la Toison d'Or et de l'Europe au 15e siecle (Ancient Equestrian Armorials of the Order of the Golden Fleece and Europe in the 15th century), Paris, 1890. From illustrated manuscript 4790 in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal.
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Three bronze statues from Benin, Anonymous, 1880 - 1940 photograph baryta paper. cardboard sculpture
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Bulto (The Holy Family). Dated: 1939. Dimensions: overall: 40.9 x 55.4 cm (16 1/8 x 21 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: Fig. of Joseph: 17 3/4"; Virgin: 15 1/2"; Child: 8 1/4". Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Eldora P. Lorenzini.
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Polish throne knob (Chart 7 in the publication: Notable ancient costumes). Oziębłowski, Józef (Wilno ; zakład litograficzny ; 1833-1863), lithography atelier, Raczyński, Karol (1799 aut 1801-post 1860), graphic artist
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Composite heads: a fruiterer, a tailor, an armourer and a fisherman made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
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Mnyamwezi Pagazi, Africa, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co. 1888 Issued by William S. Kimball & Company Trade cards from the "Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers" series (N189), issued in an unnumbered set of 50 cards in 1888 by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.. Mnyamwezi Pagazi, Africa, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by William S. Kimball & Company
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Samokhvalov, Alexander Nikolayevich (1894-1971) State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow 1935 Watercolour on paper
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Africa, Tunisia. Tunis, the bardo museum, roman mosaic
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Crusader knights on horseback with lances, and male costume of robe and cloak lined with ermine fur, 13th century. Crusaders taken from Guillaume de Tyrs manuscrupt History of Foreign Wars. Histoire des Guerres dOutre-mer, BDM, Costume civil (Montfaucon). Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz, Bossange, 1829.
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Serbaz or Soldier Playing Card for the Game of Nas Serbaz or Soldier Playing Card for the Game of Nas, mid-19th century. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on wood or papiermché under lacquered varnish, 2 3/8 x 1 9/16 in. (6.0 x 4.0 cm). Arts of the Islamic World mid-19th century