About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Folk and ethnic costumes

Folk and ethnic costumes

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Prints depicting dance

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Theatrical dancers, singly or in pairs

View as book

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Folk and ethnic costumes
Additional title: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
Names
Vieillard-Duverger, Louis-Camille-Eugène, 1800-1863 (Artist)
Massard, L. (Léopold), 1812-1889 (Artist)
Choubard, fl. ca. 1810-1830 (Engraver)
Collection

Prints depicting dance

Theatrical dancers, singly or in pairs

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1700 - 1899 (Approximate)
Table of Contents
The Americas (5 items): Indigeni della Carolina meridionale; America, Vol. II, Tav. 53 / Sasso inc. -- America settentrionale. Virginio, Sacerdote Virginio, Gl'Indiani nella Virginia venerano il Fuoco; Tom. III, Tav. 12 -- Uomo e donna di Bolivia (America del Sud) / E. Duverger -- Brazil Chili [sic]; no. 4; London, Ackermann, 1837 -- A Ticuna Indian, Coribos Indians; Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. |||| Europe (11 items): [Plate XVII, containing multiple figures; source identified in pencil as Strutt's Costumes and games of England; possibly from an edition of Joseph Strutt's A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England, 1796 or later] -- [Woman in Scottish garb; three-quarter view from back] -- Russland XIV bis XVIII Jahrhundert, Bediente Russischer Edellente im Hauskleide, im Festkleide; Gallerie der Costüme, No. 81, Nationell No. 20; Herausgegeben v. L. Schneider; Berlin bei Winckelmann u. Söhne -- Volksbelustigungen der Russen, Theil II, Pag 232 -- [Six plates, including figures labeled on mounts as the Highlands, Scotland; Albania, Greece; Presburg, Hungary; Sicily; Provence, France; Orléans, France] -- [Man and woman in a landscape in Slavic? costumes; dated 1838 at lower left; numbered 47 at lower right]. |||| Africa, Turkey, and the Middle East (5 items): Arabie. Femme de la Mecque; Voy. en Asie, Burckhard, pag. 147, [numbered 48 at lower left] / L. Massard, del.; Choubard, sc. -- Maure. Marchand.; Voy. en Afrique, Shaw, p. 221, Denham et Clapperton, p. 2, [numbered 31 at lower left] / F. Wachsmut, del.; Choubard, sc. -- Der türkische Kaiser, Theil II, Pag. 458 -- [Man in Turkish? costume; on the verso is a reproduction of Charles Rolls' engraving after Sir David Wilkie's Hymn of the Calabrian shepherds to the Virgin] -- Abbas. The royal lover bore her from the plain [quoted from William Taylor Collins, Persian eclogues]; London, C. Taylor, 1788 / Shelley pinxt.; Nutter sculpt. |||| Other (1 item): [Plate labeled T.LVII, containing two rows of four figures each, some in costumes from the Pacific islands, numbered 203-208].
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZFX Fol 21-42
Topics
Clothing and dress
Genres
Prints
Costume prints
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Acquisition: Indigeni della Carolina, America settentrionale, Brazil & Chili, six plates of European costumes, untitled plate T.LVII Gift; Lillian Moore.
Acquisition: Russland XIV bis XVIII Jahrhundert Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.
Physical Description
Extent: 22 prints : engraving, etching, lithograph, color and b&w ; 39 x 29 cm. or smaller.
Description
Collection culled from a variety of sources, including historical and ethnographic studies, costume prints, illustrated periodicals, and others. The collection has been grouped by geographical regions.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 826637960
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19763081
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 96d383f0-ed3c-0133-3537-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1700: Issued (Approximate)
  • 1800: Creator Born
  • 1863: Creator Died
  • 2019: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Folk and ethnic costumes" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1700 - 1899. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/33e71590-f05d-0133-396d-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Folk and ethnic costumes" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/33e71590-f05d-0133-396d-00505686a51c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1700 - 1899). Folk and ethnic costumes Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/33e71590-f05d-0133-396d-00505686a51c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/33e71590-f05d-0133-396d-00505686a51c | title= (still image) Folk and ethnic costumes, (1700 - 1899) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 18, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Folk and ethnic costumes