NACHTMANN, Franz-Xavier. Collection des divers costumes composant les quadrilles du bal masqué donné à Munic le 15 Fév. 1827. N.p.: n.d.] 4° (325 x 252mm.) plates mounted in a 2° (450 x 295mm.) album. 14 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES of various fancy-dress costumes by Nachtmann, each mounted. (Plate number 13 very slightly shaved at left margin, a few light spots.) Contemporary marbled boards (backstrip split), matching slipcase with mounted gilt title-label. A fine set of a work normally issued with only 8 of the plates hand-coloured. This copy has an early manuscript title Le Bal de la Noblesse En Quadrille, tel qu'il a eu lieu à Munic, l'hiver de 1827. The first 6 plates depict pairs of costumes representing characters from Scott's Ivanhoe , plates 7-12 of couples in national costume ( Quadrille Hongrais; ...Italien; ...Bédouin; ...Grec; ...Albanais; ...Polonais ), plates 13-14 groups of figures dressed for a Roman carnival. Colas 2177; Lipperheide Sbc 24.
NACHTMANN, Franz-Xavier. Collection des divers costumes composant les quadrilles du bal masqué donné à Munic le 15 Fév. 1827. N.p.: n.d.] 4° (325 x 252mm.) plates mounted in a 2° (450 x 295mm.) album. 14 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES of various fancy-dress costumes by Nachtmann, each mounted. (Plate number 13 very slightly shaved at left margin, a few light spots.) Contemporary marbled boards (backstrip split), matching slipcase with mounted gilt title-label. A fine set of a work normally issued with only 8 of the plates hand-coloured. This copy has an early manuscript title Le Bal de la Noblesse En Quadrille, tel qu'il a eu lieu à Munic, l'hiver de 1827. The first 6 plates depict pairs of costumes representing characters from Scott's Ivanhoe , plates 7-12 of couples in national costume ( Quadrille Hongrais; ...Italien; ...Bédouin; ...Grec; ...Albanais; ...Polonais ), plates 13-14 groups of figures dressed for a Roman carnival. Colas 2177; Lipperheide Sbc 24.
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