Rare Antique Folio Print - Frederic Hottenroth ' Le Costume' Circa 1880, Rome, Italy 

Good overall condition, some yellowing of the paper, and age spots, You will receive the item pictured, so the pictures are integral to the condition report and listing. This and the others come from a large private library and have been in the same family for a number of decades. Freshly mounted / matted in a new mount ready for you to frame, backed and sealed. Original Antique French Folio Print form Friedrich Hottenroth's highly regarded  'Le costume, les armes, les bijoux, la céramique, les ustensiles, outils, objets mobiliers, etc' This is 1880 Italian Edition, printed in Rome, Italy by Modes & Mendel  - Not a modern reproduction, this is an original 19th Century Lithograph Print.

Approx Size of Mount 13.5" x 11" (inches)

Approx Visible Size of Print 10.25" x8" (inches) 

Friedrich Hottenroth

(born February 6, 1840 in Johannesburg , † May 26, 1917 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German folk and folklorist, lithographer , painter and author .

After a high school visit made possible by a scholarship, Hottenroth began autodidactically with drawing . Between 1873 and 1877 he worked as an illustrator for Wilhelm Zimmermann's Illustrated History of the German People . In 1879 he began his work on the German national costumes, the richly illustrated manual of the German costume followed after its completion in 1892 until 1902 still the three volumes to the German national costumes .

Hottenroth illustrated his costumes descriptions himself. For this he went with his drawing utensils on longer hikes over the villages. His last work were the 1912 published Altfrankfurter costumes . He remained unmarried for life and died impoverished in a home for destitute artists.