Beauty's Costume: A series of female figures in the dresses of all times and nations

Various artists/makers

1836

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Title: Beauty's Costume: A series of female figures in the dresses of all times and nations
Author: Leitch Ritchie (British, Greenock, Scotland 1800–1865 London)
Etcher: Charles Heath, the elder (British, London 1785–1848 London)
Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman
Printer: J. Haddon (London)
Date: 1836
Medium: Illustrations: engravings
Dimensions: 11 7/16 x 8 11/16 x 3/8 in. (29 x 22 x 1 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1953
Object Number: 53.686.3
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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