Colección General de los Trajes que en la actualidad se usan en España: principiada en el año 1801
Madrid: Librarias de Castillo, 1801. Rodríguez, Antonio. First Edition. 8vo (12mo?); 6 1/2 4 1/8 inches (165 x 105 mm), title page + 12 numbered etchings, hand-colored. Graceful contemporary marbled leather binding with gilt scrolls and fillets on covers, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers; raised bands on spine with decorative gilt compartments, gilt title, a.e.g.; internally clean and bright throughout and firmly bound.
[Lipperheide 1212; Colas 2566; Bobins 1065; Rahir 617].
The plates in this work show the different costumes of the various provinces of Spain during the time of the Napoleonic war. A complete copy with all 112 engravings which were published in 14 installments of 8 plates each, and engraved by I. Albuerne, F. Marti, Rodrigues and J. Vasquez after Rodriguez. The first 38 plates correspond to Madrid costumes, five to La Mancha, one to La Alcarria, another to the Serranía, eight to Castilla la Vieja, two to León, Santander, Asturias and Galicia, three to Vizcaya, four to Navarra, others four to Aragon, three to Catalonia, two to Ibiza, four to Mallorca, one to Menorca, seven to Valencia, three to Murcia, four to Granada, another four to Andalusia, two to Seville, one to Málaga, two to Cádiz and two to Extremadura. The 3 books of preparatory drawings for this publication are held by the Museo del Prado in Madrid (D009562), as well as the print version (G5710), and the British museum also holds a copy no.1874,1114.1105-1216.
Antonio Rodríguez (1765–1823) was the promoter of a society of engravers formed by himself and Francisco de Paula Martí, José Vázquez, Manuel Albuerne and Pedro Vicente Rodríguez. At the end of the 18th century and early 19th century they produced collections of prints focused on illustrating the costumes from Spain and the world, which enjoyed much success. These collections constitute first-rate documents to understand the development of elegant and popular fashion at the turn of the century and are considered an extraordinary documentary source for the study of Goya's Spain.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item number: 1277
Price: $7,000.00
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