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Prince, Squire and Valets of the 15th Century, Antique Print, circa 1882
$245
€220 · £185
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- circa 1882
- Sheet size
- 7.9 × 11.2 in (20 × 28.5 cm)
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Coloring
- Original hand color
- Condition
- Good. Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Marked handling soiling along all four edges. Scattered foxing in the margin. All four corners complete. Minor edge wear, shallow nicks along the top.
- Wardrobe
- Court & couture
- Era
- 1870 to 1900, Bustle
- Stock no.
- BG-13382-30
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
This original antique hand-colored wood engraving shows Prince, Squire and Valets of the 15th Century, a plate from Augustin Challamel's La France et les Francais a travers les siecles, Paris, circa 1882. A prince in a fur lined robe of state with his squire and two valets, the group arranged across the sheet in red, gold and deep blue, the squire carrying a sword and the valets in parti colored hose and short doublets.
The plate belongs to La France et les Francais a travers les siecles by Augustin Challamel, published in Paris by F. Roy at 185 rue Saint-Antoine about 1882. It comes from the suite headed Costumes civils et militaires des Francais a travers les siecles, which runs through the work and illustrates French civil and military dress from Gaul to the nineteenth century. Much of the original drawing was done by Edmond Lechevalier-Chevignard, working from manuscripts, tapestries and paintings named on the sheets themselves. The plates of this suite are headed Costumes civils et militaires des Francais a travers les siecles across the top of the sheet, numbered at the lower left and signed F. Roy, editeur at the lower right, with the engraver's name cut small into the lower margin of the block on many of them. The ground is left plain so that the figures carry the whole weight of the design.
Fifteenth century household rank was read off clothing at a glance, and this plate sets prince, squire and servant side by side so that the fur, the length of the gown and the cut of the hose can be compared directly. The color and the plain ground make this an easy sheet to frame, and a group of three or four from the same series hung together gives a hallway or a dressing room a strong and coherent line of French historical color.
Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Marked handling soiling along all four edges. Scattered foxing in the margin. All four corners complete. Minor edge wear, shallow nicks along the top.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
