[Eastern Europe] - Lot 109

Lot n° 109
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[Eastern Europe] - Lot 109
[Eastern Europe] [Drawing]. [Costumes—Croatia]. Carlstaetes Kroat. [Sl., second half of the 18th century]. A gouache drawing on laid paper in in-12 format (17.3 x 11 cm), inscribed in brown ink at the bottom center (foxing spots). A Croatian from Karlstadt (Karlovac), depicted in military uniform and armed with a rifle. The figure is hand-drawn and hand-colored, titled “Carlstädter Croat” in the lower margin. Historically, the city was known in German as Karlstadt (or Carlstadt). Founded in 1579 as a Habsburg fortified town, it became an important center of the Military Frontier (Militärgrenze), established to defend Habsburg territories against the Ottoman Empire. This drawing is from the work *Unterweisung in den vornehmsten Kunsten und Wissenschaften zum Nutzen des Schulen…* by J. Ch. Adelung, published in 1785.
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