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Title: Welsh Costume, South Wales with ‘Caernarvon, Aberystwyth, Llyn, Lampeter, Bangor, Bala’ added in pencil.
Description: Group of 6 women, poorly painted. None of the women are wearing Welsh hats – four have sloping brims (but this could be the result of poor drawing skills): the other two are like top hats.
It is one of a pair – the other being six south Wales women.
(1) ‘Caernarvon’ Woman with tall hat; red shawl, blue striped gown (with tail hooked up), striped skirt, shoes.
(2) ‘Aberystwyth’ Woman in top hat, cap and kerchief over her head; blue striped gown, check apron and boots.
(3) ‘Llyn’ Woman with tall hat, brown striped gown with tail hooked up and shawl tucked into the top; matching apron and striped skirt. She has one sleeve on and is being helped to put the other one on. The sleeves are reminiscent of ‘Cambrian costumes dedicated to the nobility and gentry of Wales. No. 3 Welsh Girl in the costume of Pembrokeshire no 3, 1834’
(4) ‘Lampeter’ Woman in tall hat, blue check gown; red skirt, check apron.
(5) ‘Bangor’ Woman in top hat, brown jacket with lapels and matching skirt; waistcoat and apron.
(6) ‘Bala’ Woman in tall hat, cap, shawl, gown with tail hooked up, light apron and light striped skirt.
Note: Although this painting is similar to its rather naïve pair for south Wales, the costumes are not like any surviving examples (especially the gowns), but the brown jacket of the Bangor woman is like one which appears in a print of 1850 and on a Welsh costume doll.
Medium: picture, watercolour
Size: 15.3 x 23.6 cms.
Artist: K.E.
Date: unknown but probably late 19th century
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