Hand Coloured Collection (#4)

Costume of Caen
5855702 Costume of Caen; (add.info.: Costume of Caen. The woman has fixed her bavolet bonnet with two ribbons - one under the chin and one across the forehead)

Cauchoise
5855665 Cauchoise; (add.info.: Servant woman wearing the bonnet of ordinary women in Yvetot, in striped apron and full skirt)

Cauchoise
5855664 Cauchoise; (add.info.: Woman of Limpiville on the day of the Festival of the Assumption. She wears a bonnet with very long lace tails)

Costume of Granville
5855757 Costume of Granville; (add.info.: Costume of Granville. The same bonnet as in Plate 99, with the tails of chiffon folded and tied. She has knotted her shawl in the same fashion)

Tradeswoman of Lisieux
5855743 Tradeswoman of Lisieux; (add.info.: Tradeswoman of Lisieux. She wears a serre-tete fixed with a double ribbon, like those worn by the women of Paris at night)

Servant at Carentan
5855737 Servant at Carentan; (add.info.: Servant at Carentan. The simple cotton bonnet looks good on the heads of the women of Normandy. She is spinning yarn while leaning against a wooden gate)

Costume of Coutances
5855733 Costume of Coutances; (add.info.: Costume of Coutances. While the woman in Plate 25 wore an everyday bonnet, this woman is wearing a demi-pare bonnet - the bavolet was for the finest)

Costume of St. Valery en Caux
5855714 Costume of St. Valery en Caux.; (add.info.: Costume of St. Valery en Caux. The decoration of the bonnet is unlike anything we've seen at Rolleville or Bolbec)

Costume of St. Valery en Caux
5855713 Costume of St. Valery en Caux; (add.info.: Costume of St. Valery en Caux. The bonnet is larger but not as tall as that of Bolbec, and the chignon is shorter)

The drunkard's progress, or the direct road to poverty, wretchedness & ruin by John Warner Barber
2598777 The drunkard's progress, or the direct road to poverty, wretchedness & ruin by John Warner Barber; (add.info.: The drunkard's progress, or the direct road to poverty)

A hot air balloon labelled "Suffrage Universel" with wings floating above the Pyrenees
2623692 A hot air balloon labelled "Suffrage Universel" with wings floating above the Pyrenees and headed toward a sign labelled "Espagne"; (add.info)

Women in river
2911855 Women in river; (add.info.: Hand-coloured photograph of women in river, photographed by Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929)

Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant
2911023 Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant; (add.info.: 1811 Hand-coloured etching titled Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) English artist and caricaturist

Pope Pius IX, 1870 (hand-coloured lithograph) (hand coloured lithograph)
1574295 Pope Pius IX, 1870 (hand-coloured lithograph) (hand coloured lithograph); (add.info.: Hand-coloured lithograph created by Currier and Ives of his holiness Pope Pius IX)

Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, 1838 (hand-coloured litho) (hand coloured lithograph)
1574399 Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, 1838 (hand-coloured litho) (hand coloured lithograph); (add.info.: Hand-coloured lithograph of Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, a Sioux chief. Dated 1838); Universal History Archive/UIG

"Departure of the Conscript" and "The Return". 19th century (french popular hand-coloured woodcut)
543892 "Departure of the Conscript" and "The Return". 19th century (french popular hand-coloured woodcut); Universal History Archive/UIG

Napoleon in Egypt, 1798, visiting the Pyramids. 19th century (french popular hand-coloured woodcut)
543877 Napoleon in Egypt, 1798, visiting the Pyramids. 19th century (french popular hand-coloured woodcut); Universal History Archive/UIG

Napoleon I at the Battle of Ulm, 16-19 October 1805. 19th century (popular hand-coloured woodcut)
543810 Napoleon I at the Battle of Ulm, 16-19 October 1805. 19th century (popular hand-coloured woodcut); (add.info.: The outcome was a resounding French victory the capture of the entire Austrian)

Giraffe browsing on tree. Hand-coloured engraving published 1836
533416 Giraffe browsing on tree. Hand-coloured engraving published 1836.; (add.info.: Giraffe browsing on tree. Jean Lamarck (1744-1829) French naturalist

Wind Costume - A young Japanese girl in the rain, c.1890 (hand coloured photograph)
1766823 Wind Costume - A young Japanese girl in the rain, c.1890 (hand coloured photograph); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wind Costume - A young Japanese girl in the rain)

Cauchoise
5855663 Cauchoise; (add.info.: A country servant woman from Yvetot wearing tall hat, bodice, shawl and scarlet skirt. The people of the ancient province of Normandy eat well: bread, vegetable soup)

Costume of Pont-Leveque
5855745 Costume of Pont-Leveque.; (add.info.: Costume of Pont-Leveque, Calvados. This woman wears bonnet of her village on top of a cornet "a la Parisienne." The cornet is decorated with)

Costume of Cherbourg
5855740 Costume of Cherbourg; (add.info.: Costume of Cherbourg. This young woman appears to be from a rich family. In Cherbourg, the bavolet bonnet is only worn by old women)

Costume of Saint-Lo
5855732 Costume of Saint-Lo; (add.info.: Costume of Saint-Lo. A young woman of a higher class than the person in Plate 74)

Woman of Polet, Dieppe, dressed for a festival
5855730 Woman of Polet, Dieppe, dressed for a festival; (add.info.: Woman of Polet, Dieppe, dressed for a festival. The simple headdress is difficult to reconcile with the decoration of the clothes)

Costume of St. Valery en Caux
5855719 Costume of St. Valery en Caux; (add.info.: Costume of a woman of St. Valery en Caux. Again the simple bonnet, this time covered with a striped toile)

Young girl from Villers-Bocage
5855712 Young girl from Villers-Bocage; (add.info.: Young girl from Villers-Bocage. A new and very coquettish way to fix the tails of the bonnet)

Costume of Rolleville
5855694 Costume of Rolleville; (add.info.: Woman in the costume of Rolleville. Side view of the tall bavolet bonnet. The decorations on the front)

Costume of Bolbec
5855692 Costume of Bolbec; (add.info.: Woman in the costume of Bolbec. Tradeswoman in blue dress, lace shawl and bonnet. Bolbec is a town seven leagues from le Havre with a population of 5, 500)

Costume of Bois d'Embourg
5855689 Costume of Bois d'Embourg.; (add.info.: Young woman in the costume of Bois d'Embourg, three leagues from Rouen. She wears a tall bavolet bonnet with long tails)

Tradeswoman of Rouen
5855672 Tradeswoman of Rouen; (add.info.: Tradeswoman of Rouen wearing a bonnet called a bavolet. She wears a chocolate brown dress and carries an umbrella)

General View of the City of Madrid, Spain, 1762
6266268 General View of the City of Madrid, Spain, 1762; (add.info.: A General View of the City of Madrid, the Capital of the Kingdom of Spain. After an engraving published in 1762)

Palace of the King of Germany, Berlin
6266235 Palace of the King of Germany, Berlin; (add.info.: The Palace of the King of Germany at Berlin. After a mid-18th century hand-coloured engraving.); Photo © Ken Welsh

Bullfighting in Barcelona
2628305 Bullfighting in Barcelona.; (add.info.: Hand-Coloured photograph of bullfighting in Barcelona, Spain. Dated 1890.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Surrey Zoological Gardens
2623677 Surrey Zoological Gardens; (add.info.: Hand-coloured lithograph of the Surrey Zoological Gardens, with a balloon ascending in the distance)

Kusakabe Kimbei, umbrella maker
2911784 Kusakabe Kimbei, umbrella maker; (add.info.: Hand coloured photograph of Kusakabe Kimbei, umbrella maker. Dated 1880. 1880); Universal History Archive/UIG

Snake game rules
2911695 Snake game rules; (add.info.: Snake game rules. Published between 1840 and 1860. Wood engraving, hand-coloured. Print showing a game board with red, gold, and blue spaces)

Queen Caroline Britain's best hope England's sheet anchor. On the anchor is written Magna Carter, The People
527964 Queen Caroline Britain's best hope England's sheet anchor. On the anchor is written Magna Carter, The People, Bill of Rights, Constitution

Sauna (Russian) bath. Early 19th century (hand-coloured copperplate print)
541953 Sauna (Russian) bath. Early 19th century (hand-coloured copperplate print); Universal History Archive/UIG

Basin of Caledonian Ship Canal at Muirtown near Inverness, Scotland. Opened 24 October 1822 (engraving)
533600 Basin of Caledonian Ship Canal at Muirtown near Inverness, Scotland. Opened 24 October 1822 (engraving); (add.info.: Basin of Caledonian Ship Canal at Muirtown near Inverness, Scotland)

Orang Utang and Gibbon. Hand-coloured engraving 1822
533493 Orang Utang and Gibbon. Hand-coloured engraving 1822.; (add.info.: Orang Utang and Gibbon. Hand-coloured engraving 1822.); Universal History Archive/UIG

St James Palace and Park, London, showing formal planting of trees in avenues
531812 St James Palace and Park, London, showing formal planting of trees in avenues. Men and women take the air and saunter along the walks in conversation

Sprig of Coffee (Coffea arabica) showing flowers and beans. Hand-coloured engraving published London 1798
531680 Sprig of Coffee (Coffea arabica) showing flowers and beans. Hand-coloured engraving published London 1798; Universal History Archive/UIG

Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular Campaign, Battle of Corunna. Hand-coloured engraving
531476 Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular Campaign, Battle of Corunna. Hand-coloured engraving.; (add.info.: Peninsular Campaign, Battle of Corunna (La Coruna) Spain, 16 January 1809, viewed from the sea

Daniel Boone (1734-1820) American pioneer, hunter, frontiersman, and folk hero
528335 Daniel Boone (1734-1820) American pioneer, hunter, frontiersman, and folk hero. Boone in buckskins, defending his wife and son from a Native American wielding a tomahawk

Indian barbers: In the foreground a Sepoy is being shaved. His uniform lies on the ground
545018 Indian barbers: In the foreground a Sepoy is being shaved. His uniform lies on the ground. Hand-coloured lithograph from L'Inde francaise, Paris, 1828. ; Universal History Archive/UIG

Napoleon I taking his leave at Fontainbleau of the Old Guard before going into exile onSt Helena, 20 April 1814
543857 Napoleon I taking his leave at Fontainbleau of the Old Guard before going into exile onSt Helena, 20 April 1814. 19th century (french popular hand-coloured woodcut)

The Last Hours of Marshal Duroc (23 May 1813), fatally wounded at the Batle of Bautzen 20-21 May 1813
543837 The Last Hours of Marshal Duroc (23 May 1813), fatally wounded at the Batle of Bautzen 20-21 May 1813, Duroc died on 23 May. French victory of Prussian and Russian army

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