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    Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume: 100 Engravings
    Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume: 100 Engravings
    Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume: 100 Engravings
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    Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume: 100 Engravings

    By Caspar Luyken

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    This volume reprints the celebrated collection of costume plates created in 1694 by noted 17th-century Dutch engraver Caspar Luyken. Executed with remarkable finesse, the superb illustrations depict a wide range of social classes: royalty, courtesans, merchants, laborers, military officers, ladies, gentlemen, soldiers, and a host of other figures representing varied races and countries. (A number of the subjects were drawn in their everyday milieu.) Among the many craftworkers and professionals depicted are a carpenter, mason, tailor, wickerworker, grocer, butcher, astrologer, physician, painter, and musician. This important book will fascinate anyone interested in clothing styles of another era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateFeb 21, 2013
    ISBN9780486168401
    Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume: 100 Engravings

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      Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume - Caspar Luyken

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      Publisher’s Note

      In 1703, Christoph Weigel of Nuremberg published the Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria, a collection of 100 costume plates etched by the Dutch artist Caspar Luyken (1672–1708). Luyken, the son of noted engraver and poet Jan Luyken, had arrived in Germany in 1699 to work with Weigel on a number of illustrated books.

      The contents of the original title page [the frontispiece of this edition], can be summarized as follows: It announces the recently opened world gallery, which offers curious and amusing attire of different walks of life from around the world; the plates begin with depictions of members of the imperial court of Vienna, and proceed to other important individuals, finally presenting the simplest common man; the plates are said to have been etched in copper by Christoph Weigel in Nuremberg in 1703. The presenter of the collection, P. Abrahamo à S. Clara, was born Ulrich Megerle in Baden, ca. 1644. After attending Jesuit and Benedictine schools, he pursued a theological career and was appointed preacher to the imperial court at Vienna in 1677. A prolific writer of religious treatises, sermons, and verse, Sancta

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