Details
Title Habillement des grands / Habillement des Femmes du Roy [graphic].
Title Costume of the nobility / Costume of the King's wives
Publisher [Amsterdam: s.n]
Publisher NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam. 1731
Date [1731]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 12 x 19 cm. (7.25 x 4.75 in)
Description The plate accompanies Chapter VIII, "Mouers & Coûtumes du Royaume de Juda." The engraving on the left shows the dress of the nobility and the King's wives in Juda (now in French Guiana). Their headwear is particularly notable, with the King's wife wearing a tall straw bonnet. The image on the right shows various weapons, tools, and musical instruments used by the people of Juda, and includes an iron flute, a drum, a hoe, a bow and arrow, and swords made from iron and wood.
Is part of Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738. Voyage du chevalier des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et a Cayenne. Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compagnie, M.DCC.XXXI [1731].
Notes Fold-out plate in Jean Baptiste Labat's Voyage du chevalier Des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et a Cayenne, Fait en 1725, 1726, & 1727 (A Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compaigne, M.DCC.XXXI [1731], vol. 2, p. 194.
The key underneath the engraving on the left reads as follows: "1. Instrument fait en Visse rempli d'anneaux de Cuivre au bout du quel est un Coq de Cuivre servant a la musique du Roy. 2. Cruche de terre Couverte de peau servant de tambour pour les Femmes du Roy. 3. Panier dozier rempli de Cocquilles qui sert a la musique du Roy."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1730-1740.
Book illustrations -- 1730-1740.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1731 Lab 1691.D v 2 p 194
Accession number 1691.D