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Welsh Costume: Daguerrotype Portraits, 1850s

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Title: ‘DAGUERROTYPE PORTRAITS OF WELSH WOMEN. / George Philip and Son, London and Liverpool’
Description: Three women, all with Welsh hats and goffered caps and long aprons with mountains behind.
(1) Woman with short bedgown with collar
(2) Woman probably wearing a short bedgown with large collar
(3) Woman with open fronted gown or jacket
Note: The Title suggests that this was based on an early photograph. Medium: steel engraving
Size: 11.6 x 13.5 cms
Artist: Anon [another print of the same image was ‘Taken and published by W.L. Sharp, Artist, Rhyl.’]
Engraver: Anon
Printer: Anon
Publisher: Philip, George, and Son, (Liverpool and London)
Date: 1850 - 1860

Owner:
The National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, NLW (101), Welsh Costumes box 1 no. 4
Creator:
W.L. Sharp
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The National Library of Wales
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23/5/2018
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