Reise der Frau Generalin von Minutoli nach Egypten: mit 2 colorirten Kupfern
A hand-coloured travel account from 1829, written by Wolfradine von Minutoli with Wilhelmine von Gersdorff, recording a German general's wife's journey to Egypt and issued for a German-reading public. The two plates show costumed figures in an early nineteenth-century antiquarian manner: a rider on a grey horse led by a bearded attendant in a blue robe and red cap, and a dancing woman in a blue coat with a patterned sash and red-trimmed sleeves. A designer might take the flat, slightly stiff hand-colouring and the bold saturated costume palettes as period reference for historical or Orientalist-themed work.
