[RIBELLES Y HELIP, José (1778-1835), artist and Juan CARRAFA (1787-1869), engraver]
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[RIBELLES Y HELIP, José (1778-1835), artist and Juan CARRAFA (1787-1869), engraver]

[Coleccion de Trages de España. [Madrid: Real Calcografia, c. 1825-1836.]

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[RIBELLES Y HELIP, José (1778-1835), artist and Juan CARRAFA (1787-1869), engraver]
[Coleccion de Trages de España. [Madrid: Real Calcografia, c. 1825-1836.]
Rare coloured plates of Spanish costume from various regions of Spain, including Ávila, Segovia, Piedrahita, Valle de Amblés, Burgos, Salamanca, Valencia, Murcia, Santander, Extremadura, Mallorca, La Alcarria, La Mancha, Catalonia, Ibiza, Cuenca, Asturias, Galicia, Aragon, Andalusia, Navarra, Vizcaya, El Roncal, Castilla la Nueva, Madrid, Alcoy, and Castilla la Vieja. The prints also depict trades and types, including bullfighters, gypsies, sailors, merchants, fishermen, students, porters etc. La Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid states that these plates were engraved by Juan Carrafa after drawings by José Ribelles y Helip, and were published by the Real Calcografía from 1825. The plates were originally issued in 14 parts each with 8 plates. Bobins II, 563; Colas 646; Lipperheide 1224; cf. www.academiacolecciones.com/estampas/indumentaria.php?serie=trajes-de-espana-carrafa

12 (of 14) parts, quarto (from 252 x 185mm to 282 x 185mm). Engraved frontispiece title, and 96 (of 112) engraved plates on laid paper, all coloured by a contemporary hand, by Juan Carrafa after José Ribelles y Helip. Contemporary blue paper wrappers, numbered in ink 1-12 (lacking parts 13 and 14, edge of upper wrapper of part 1 chipped); preserved in modern red clamshell cloth box, black leather label to spine.