Costume Print of a Sausage Seller

by Jeremias Wolff

$450 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

This is a handsome print, with breathtaking early colour, depicting the costume of a Sausage seller. This bold print is from a colourful series of costume prints engraved and published by Jeremias Wolff at the beginning of the 18th century. The series depicts prancing figures in flamboyant theatrical costumes, and is a superb example of early costume prints. Costume and trade prints, such as this, became extremely popular in Europe at the close of the seventeenth century and

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