Welsh Costume: Cambrian Costumes no. 13 ‘proof’
Description
Print, medium-height hat added
This is one of seven of the prints which have had a watercolour of the hat, head, neck and shawl pasted over the original. The addition is carefully cut around the bottom edge of the shawl.
Title: Dull-wisgoedd Cymru / Cyflwynedig i Bendefigion a Boneddigion y Dywysogaeth. / Rhif 13. / Cymraes ieuanc mewn / Dull-wisgad Ceredigion. // Cambrian Costumes. / Dedicated to the Nobility and Gentry of Wales. / No. 13 / Welsh Girl in the / Costume of Cardiganshire.
Description: Girl, seated, with tall hat and narrow brim, white cotton cap with lace lappets, small yellow floral shawl, red and black striped tailored gown with ?silk bands on the short sleeves and skirt, blue and white check apron, long black mittens. She is holding a cat in her apron. Most of the surviving gowns in museum collections are of this type.
Note: No. 13 in a set of 13 prints of Cambrian Costumes, a pair with Cambrian Costumes, no 11
Medium: print and watercolour
Size: 34.1 x 24.2 cms
Artist: A Cadwalader?
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Date: 1834-1835
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