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RURAL COSTUME SCENES (possibly Swiss, hand-coloured lithographs c.1830)
[V58069]

£375.00

Title: RURAL COSTUME SCENES) (possibly Swiss)
PlacePub: London
Publisher: N P
Date: 1830 approx)
Illustrations: Hand colored lithographs (12) on tinted background

Oblong narrow quarto (32x20cm) cloth spined paper boards (tips worn) Twelve leaves. First plate shows some foxing others clean. No titlepage (as issued?) all plates stubbed some closed gutter tears. *Subjects: Father carving a wooden sword for 2 boys while young woman watches; Travelling showman selling vial of medicine while clown with drum waits to perform to crowd of ladies and children with horse and carts in front of curtained "stage"; Travelling salesman offering statues to grandmother (seated) and young woman and man with toddler & sister all in forecourt of farm with ducks, dogs, chickens etc; Hawker with wares on a board on his head is bitten by dog and his wares fall off as the board tips (among wares are dolls, parrot, and a Napoleon figurine); Man in doorway of house laughs, also lady peeling apples with toddler reaching for carrots on table and boy with stick; Dancing girl and man with sword while women hang out clothes sit by laundry cart with dog and wash board by stream in the foreground; Coming out of church 2 ladies kiss in greeting with 2 men talking, boys on fence, youngster led by grandmother & many other people in Sunday best; Group of young people playing a dare you game of jumping over a fire, one girl has fallen down, another has been caught by her partner, dog & 5 others watch a boy jump; Guide has taken 2 ladies up a mountain to look at a waterfall, one crawls right up to the edge while the other is pulling her back, all 3 have early mountaineering poles with girp-hooks; Group of children fruit picking young man on pony with lady mounted behind crossing a stream with dog; Grape harvesters take a break while one dances to the tambourines & procession with garlands. Very lively scenes.

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