SVEDMAN, Carl Wilhelm

Costume of Sweden

London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1823. Item #05927

The Costume of Sweden
Twenty-Two Fine Hand Colored Lithographed Plates

[SVEDMAN, Carl Wilhelm]. Costume of Sweden. Illustrated by Twenty-Two Engravings. London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1823.

First edition. Folio (16 1/8 x 12 5/8 inches; 409 x 321 mm.). Twenty-two fine hand colored lithographed plates by D. Dighton after Svedman. Plates watermarked "J. Whatman 1821".

Contemporary quarter blue calf over marbled boards, smooth spine decorated in blind and lettered horizontally in gilt, marbled edges. Early ink signature on front paste-down. A near fine example of this rare and fine series on Swedish costume.

Carl Wilhelm Svedman (1762-1840) was a Swedish painter and student of the Stockholm Academy. His work primarily focused on biblical subjects and scenes inspired by the history of Sweden. (Benezit).

Denis Dighton (1792-1827) was the son of the caricaturist Robert Dighton and a younger brother was Richard Dighton. He enrolled as a student of the Royal Academy in 1807 and exhibited 17 pictures there between 1811 and 1825.

The Plates:
1. Inhabitant of Småland.
2. Watchmen of Stockholm.
3. Servant Girl of an Inn at Stockholm.
4. Fish Woman of Stockholm.
5. Washerwomen of Stockholm.
6. An inhabitant of Wermeland.
7. Inhabitants of the Province of Gestrikland.
8. The Scanians.
9. Woman of the Provinces of West Gothland.
10. An inhabitant of the Province of West Gothland.
11. Women of the Provinces of Wingåker in Sudermanie.
12. Inhabitant of Sudermania, Parish of Wingaker.
13. Woman of the Provinces of Småland.
14. Inhabitant of Småland.
15. Women of the Province of Blekinge.
16. Inhabitant of Blekinge.
17. An inhabitant of Norrland.
18. A Dalekarlian.
19. A Dalekarlian Woman of the Parish of Mora.
20. Dalekarian of the Parish of Mora.
21. Dalekarlians of the Parish of Leeksand.
22. An inhabitant of of Helsingland.

Bobins II, 412; Colas 2841; Lipperheide 1046.

Price: $3,850.00