Kostüm-Bildergalerie
Kostüm-Bildergalerie is a German costume-plate book published by Joseph Brodtmann in 1816, presenting non-European peoples to a European readership. The hand-coloured plates show paired figures in full view, each standing against a plain ground with minimal setting. A designer might take the flat, frontal staging and the hand-tinted palette of ochre, cream and blue as a model for ethnographic figure groupings.
