Costume
Whether in the highly stylized aesthetic of the Parisian art deco designer George Barbier, pioneering anthropologies in voyage accounts, in maps, portraits, games or tools for teaching the young, this month’s themed list explores costume in all its forms. Often images were so striking they re-occur in accounts decades — or centuries later. The spirit behind many of the works is very much that of the Enlightenment — a tremendous curiosity about newly discovered parts of the world and about human behaviour, particularly for ritualised behavior. The late Professor Bernard Smith noted (here specifically of the work of St-Sauveur included in this list) ‘The engravings published in Cook’s Voyages provided new visual information about many previously unknown peoples, and greatly enlarged Europe’s knowledge of the family of man… as artists copied the engravings so they altered them still further in the direction of European pre-conceptions, the anthropological and ethnographic intentions of the originals being diverted increasingly to fulfil the demands of taste and the intrinsic needs of decoration.’ (European Vision and the South Pacific, p. 113).
La Geografia en Laminas y Mapas…
Barcelona, 1834
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
US$1,581.48 Other currencies
Ref: #3605521
The Lord Chief Justice Denman.
circa 1840
Price (AUD):
$325.00
US$209.79 Other currencies
Ref: #1600369
Original drawing "M le curé d'Agana en petit negligé".
Guam, 1819
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
US$9,359.76 Other currencies
Ref: #4504053
Malningar af Nagra Folkslag fran de Frammande Werldsdelarne…
Stockholm, 1825
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
US$1,452.38 Other currencies
Ref: #3806731
Album de la jeunesse…
Paris, circa 1830
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
US$3,066.13 Other currencies
Ref: #2711295
Oceanic Group… American Group…
circa 1875
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
US$1,839.68 Other currencies
Ref: #3806749
Darstellung der fünf Welttheile durch Zufammenfetzung…
Stuttgart, circa 1820
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
US$6,358.18 Other currencies
Ref: #3906192
Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821…
Paris, 1826-1827
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
US$1,839.68 Other currencies
Ref: #4305434
Tetes et Groupe de Sauvages du Camden-Shire…
Paris, 1828
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
US$806.88 Other currencies
Ref: #3402059
Costumes usos e trajos de Todos os Povos do Mundo…
Lisbon, 1873
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
US$1,420.10 Other currencies
Ref: #2708049