Selections of the costume of Albania and Greece,

The rarest of the great Greek costume books. Not in the Blackmer collection.

The British marine painter, Joseph Cartwright (1789ý-1829) was based in Corfu as paymaster-general to the British troops from 1815 and from there travelled extensively through the Ionian Islands. Though from 1823 he dedicated himself almost exclusively to marine painting and was employed as marine painter by the Duke of Clarence, he first completed this detailed collection of the different regional costumes inspired by the works of Byron and Henry Gally Knight, author of several oriental tales.

The plates are: 1. Captain of Suliote Albanians; 2. An Albanian of Jannina; 3. Albanian Female; 4. A Suliote in his Shaggy Capote; 5. Lefchimo Costume; 6. Corfu Costume; 7. An Albanian; 8. A Greek Bishop; 9. A Red Shawled Arnaut; 10. A Parguinote; 11. A Tartar; 12. Ali Pacha of Jannina.