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VERNET, Horace (1789-1863) and Louis Marie LANTÉ (1789-1871)

Lot 219
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 219 | VERNET, Horace (1789-1863) and Louis Marie LANTÉ (1789-1871)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
VERNET, Horace (1789-1863) and Louis Marie LANTÉ (1789-1871)

Incroyables et merveilleuses. Paris: [c. 1815].

First edition of this rare suite of 33 fashion plates with fine contemporary hand-colouring, engraved by Gatine after the drawings of Horace Vernet and Louis Marie Lanté. The first 31 plates were by Vernet and the final 2 were by Lanté, and depict extremely fashionable French men and women (and one plate of not so fashionable English soldiers). They were printed on a large scale and are now considered some of the finest records of French fashion of this period, when the French began to rebel against the dress styles traditionally associated with the Revolution and developed new styles, more closely associated with aristocratic fashions prior to the Revolution. They are particularly valuable as a record of men's fashion, including a rare early image of a fashionably dressed man carrying an umbrella and sporting a top hat, plate 14. Bobins II, 557; Colas 2992 ('Cette belle suite est très rare'); Ray, French, p.80; Lipperheide Fc 2.



Oblong folio (275 x 385mm). 33 engraved plates, coloured by a contemporary hand (light marginal spotting, plate 28 with neatly repaired tear, plates 28, 32 and 33 with slight shorter margins). Contemporary red straight-grained quarter morocco over red paper boards (slightly rubbed at joints and edges).





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Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Printed books
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