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Album of Costume Studies

001. Front cover
002. Inside front cover–front blank 1, recto
003. Front blank 3–inserted engraving, recto
004. Front blank 4, verso–folio 1 recto
005. Folios 1 verso–2 recto
006. Folios 2 verso–3 recto
007. Folios 3 verso–4 recto
008. Folios 4 verso–5 recto
009. Folios 5 verso–6 recto
010. Folios 6 verso–7 recto
011. Folios 7 verso–8 recto
012. Folios 8 verso–9 recto

This album contains 131 drawings in watercolor on 135 leaves, with album leaves numbered at upper right. A second numbering system is also found on the drawings, at upper right of each sheet, ranging from 3 through 164, with some gaps in the sequence, indicating the drawings were once part of a larger series. Margaret Rosenthal has proposed that the album is the work of an Italian artist from the mid to late sixteenth century. The studies, carefully executed in watercolor and gouache, and sometimes highlighted with gold or silver paint, depict a range of regional costumes from Italy and other European countries, as well as examples of costume from Turkey, Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere.