Woman near Rotterdam, Dutch Regional Dress, Antique Ackermann Print, 1817

An original antique engraving, colored by hand, from Miss Semple's The Costume of the Netherlands, lettered "Woman of the neighborhood of Rotterdam". She stands facing the viewer under a very large round hat of rose pink with a white floral pattern, worn over a close white cap, with gold earrings and a gold necklace. Her brown jacket is sprinkled with pale spots and trimmed with blue and white braid at the neck, over a white kerchief, a white apron and a gray striped skirt, with a blue and white striped cloth gathered at her waist and falling down one side. In her right hand she carries a round blue bag with a white frame and on her left arm a green pail. A bush and a bare tree stand at the right and a low shrub at the lower left.

The caption is engraved in script below the image as "Woman of the neighborhood of Rotterdam", and beneath it is the publisher's imprint "Published Jan.y 1, 1817, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand." No artist's or engraver's name is lettered on the plate; the drawings for the series are credited to Miss Semple on the title of the work.

The plate belongs to The Costume of the Netherlands, published in 1817 at Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London. The title of the work describes it as displayed in thirty colored engravings after drawings from nature by Miss Semple, with descriptions in English and French. Its figures cover the Dutch provinces, Flanders and Brabant, and the French border country around Valenciennes, each shown in everyday working or market dress rather than in formal portraiture. Ackermann issued many of the best known illustrated books of Regency London, and the plates of this work were colored by hand after printing.

The figure sits well in a simple narrow frame with a wide mount, and plates from the same work make a coherent group on one wall.

This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.