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Bathing suits

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  • A man wearing a bathing costume. Coloured etching by Bracquet after C. Camino, ca. 1857.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A Peruvian woman wearing a blue bathing costume walking down steps into the sea. Coloured lithograph by J. Gaildrau, 1856, after A.A. Bonnaffé.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
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Catalogue

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    Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.

    Heath, William, 1795-1840. | Reference: 15654i
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    A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.

    Bry, Auguste, 1805-1880. | Date: 1850 | Reference: 24890i
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    A Peruvian woman wearing a blue bathing costume walking down steps into the sea. Coloured lithograph by J. Gaildrau, 1856, after A.A. Bonnaffé.

    Bonnaffé, A. A. | Reference: 35165i
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    A man wearing a bathing costume. Coloured etching by Bracquet after C. Camino, ca. 1857.

    Camino, Charles, 1824-1888. | Date: 1857 | Reference: 34994i
    Part of: Musée de costumes
    • Ephemera

    Fashion catalogue / Clone Zone.

    | Date: [between 1995 and 2000?]
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