A collection of prints by various artists Title: Welsh Costumes. / No. 2. / Lithographed & Published by Newman & Co. 48 Watling St. London.
Description: 5 Women in front of Caernarfon Castle
Description: Women around market stall, large buildings and a mountain top in the background.
(1) Woman with flat straw hat, goffered cap, low-cut gown with tail hooked up; striped skirt, shoes
(2) Woman with Welsh hat, printed neckerchief, large cloak
(3) Woman in Welsh hat, goffered cap, printed or fine woven shawl, check gown or bedgown.
(4) Woman in Welsh hat, goffered cap, large cloak
(5) Woman (seated) with coal scuttle hat, printed kerchief around her head, low-cut, short-sleeved gown; check sleeves (?of blouse?)
(6) Woman in Welsh hat, goffered cap, fine shawl
(7) Woman in Welsh hat, goffered cap, ?blouse (buttoned up to the neck);
(8) Woman in bonnet and cloak
(9) Woman in bonnet, short jacket with edging to collar and lower edge;
(10) Woman with no hat (extremely rare) carrying produce in a basket on her head
(11) Girl in straw hat, ?bedgown and short skirt
(12) Woman in Welsh hat, goffered cap, fine shawl
Note: The impression given in this print (as in some others like it) is that the women in Welsh hats and bonnets are the purchasers and those with other sorts of hat are the sellers.
Medium: print, lithograph, (coloured)
Size: paper: 22 x 29.9; image: 15.3 x 23.3 cms
Artist: Anon
Lithographer: Newman & Co.
Printer: Anon
Publisher: Newman & Co. 48 Watling St. London
Date: 1850-1860