Lauwerbladen uit Neêrlands Gloriekrans. [With 27 coloured plates
A Dutch patriotic history, Willem Jacobsz Hofdijk's Lauwerbladen uit Neêrlands Gloriekrans, published in 1875 for general readers at home who wanted national heroes in pictures. The 27 chromolithographed plates give full-length costume figures — a cuirassier in fluted armour with sash and boots, a scholar at a carved oak desk, halberdiers escorting a prisoner, officers bent over a map — with soft pastel skies and clear silhouettes useful for costume reference, period uniforms and staged group compositions.
