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Minorcan costumes [album] : / Joseph Chicia.

Accession number
PML 152749
Creator
Chicia, Joseph
Published
[s.l. : s.n., ca. 1750-55]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Title from spine.
Album of twenty-seven drawings of Minorcan costumes and scenery executed in wash and flesh tones with a black border mounted on guarded buff color paper. Three blank leaves in front and back.
"Drawings by Joseph Chicia, circa 1750-1755"--label in black ink on recto of leaf [3]
"H.V. Day, Old & Rare Books, Maps and Prints, Dorchester"--label inside upper cover.
Description
[6] ll., [27] leaves of plates : ill. (pen-and-wash drawings) ; 23.5 cm
Provenance
Bookplate initialed ALF; from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Jansenist style full olive morocco, gold tooled spine title and inside dentelles, by Zaehnsdorf, his emblem stamped in gold on inner lower cover. In marbled green and brown slipcase.
Classification
Department