Woman of Hinlopen, Frisian Dress, Antique Ackermann Print, 1817

An original antique engraving, colored by hand, from Miss Semple's The Costume of the Netherlands, lettered "Woman of Hinlopen". A young woman stands facing the viewer in front of a lattice garden fence hung with a climbing vine, a leafy bush at the left. On her head she wears a tall cylindrical cap rising from a wrapped band of pink and white. Her lilac gray jacket is patterned with white leaf shapes and opens over a yellow bodice, above a long plain blue skirt, white stockings and yellow slippers. In her right hand she holds a small wicker basket with a few pale objects inside. Hinlopen is the older spelling of Hindeloopen, the town on the Zuiderzee coast of Friesland.

The caption is engraved in script below the image as "Woman of Hinlopen", 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.