Welsh Costume: Welsh costume, Humphreys, 1850
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Title: Welsh Costumes / Published by H Humphreys. Stationer, Carnarvon.
Description: Group of three women in a mountainous landscape with a waterfall below an archway in the background.
(1) Woman with Welsh hat, plain cap, loose long-sleeved jacket with lapels, ? buttoned blouse; skirt, carting a rectangular basket.
(2) Woman with Welsh hat, plain cap, cape, ?gown, skirt, knitting
(3) Woman in Welsh hat, goffered cap, fine shawl, long ?skirt. She is very like young women is some other prints but is without her umbrella.
Note: The two horizontally striped brown coats with lapels and long, loose sleeves are like examples on two Welsh costume dolls https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/495419 and https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/495408 and in another image in this collection. NLW PA7610, Welsh Costumes box 1 no. 13
Medium: steel engraving
Size: mount: 16.2 x 24.3; image (stuck onto mount): 14 x 22 cms.
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Publisher: H. Humphreys (Caernarfon)
Date: 1850 (watermark on a letterhead with same image)
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