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Welsh Costume: Wales, 1860s

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Title: ‘Wales’
Description: Woman with a hat with sloping brim; low-cut blouse with puffed shoulders; a shawl hanging from her elbows; a striped skirt, apron and small shoes. She is holding a staved dairy container and is feeding flowers to a goat.
Note: This representation of a very narrow-waisted young woman in fashionable, rather than practical clothes is one of at least three (the others being ‘Wales’ (NLW PA5673) and C. Martin’s ‘Wales, Fancy Ball Companion no 23’ (NLW PA9088)
Medium: print, lithograph
Size: 18.5 x 13.6 cm
Artist: Anon
Engraver: Anon
Printer: Anon
Publisher: Anon
Date: 1860s?

Owner:
The National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, NLW PA9087, Welsh Costumes box 3 no. 2
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