Print with low-crowned hat added
Note: This is one of seven of the prints which have had a watercolour of the hat, head, cap, neck and a ‘collar’ of the shawl pasted over the original. The addition is carefully cut so as not to obscure the shoulders on the original.
Title: Dull wisgoedd Cymru / Cyflwynedig i Bendefigion a Boneddigion y Dywysogaeth. / Rhif 1 / Cymraes ieuanc mewn / Dull-wisgad rhan o wlad Gwent // Cambrian Costumes. / Dedicated to the Nobility and Gentry of Wales. / No. 1 Welsh Girl in the Costume of part of Gwent
Description: Girl with tall hat, ornate shawl, blue and orange striped gown with short, puffed sleeves and tail at the back, long mittens, brown skirt, red and white check apron.
Note: No. 1 in a set of 13 prints of Welsh costume, a pair with Cambrian Costumes no. 2
Medium: print and watercolour
Size: 34.6 x 24.3 cms
Date: c. 1835
watermark: J Whatman 1835