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Costume of the Pagan Irish in the post-Roman era. The subject is an initiation ceremony into the Helio-arkite religion. Irish Druid priest hydramus, minister of the sea, in white stole, and herald bard in striped trousers (truise), tunic (cotaigh), and striped hood (cochal), with baby and Irish wolf-hound. In the background, a gowlan temple and barr-chean pillar. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.
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Costume of the Pagan Irish in the post-Roman era. The subject is an initiation ceremony into the Helio-arkite religion. Irish Druid priest hydramus, minister of the sea, in white stole, and herald bard in striped trousers (truise), tunic (cotaigh), and striped hood (cochal), with baby and Irish wolf-hound. In the background, a gowlan temple and barr-chean pillar. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.
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4403 x 6550 px | 82.5 MB
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37.3 x 55.5 cm | 14.7 x 21.8 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
19 CENTURY • 19TH CENTURY • 19TH • 19TH-CENTURY • ANCIENT HISTORY • AQUATINT • AQUATINT, ETCHING • BARD • BARDO • BARR-CHEAN • CELT • CELTIC MINSTREL • CELTIC • CEREMONY • CHARLES HAMILTON SMITH • COCHAL • COSTUME OF THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS • COSTUME • COTAIGH • DISGUISE • ERA • ETCHED ENGRAVING • FLEET • GOWLAN • HANDCOLOURED • HAVELL • HEATHEN • HELIO-ARKITE • HERALD • HOOD • HYDRAMUS • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • INITIATION • IRISH DRUID • IRISH • MARINE • MASQUERADE • MINISTER • NAVY • NINETEENTH CENTURY • OCEAN • PAGAN • PAGANO • PANTALOONS • PANTS • PILLAR • POST-ROMAN • PRIEST • PRIESTS • RACE • RELIGION • SAMUEL MEYRICK • SEA • SEAS • STOLE • STRIPED BODY • STRIPED • TEMPERA • TEMPLE • TEMPLES • TRIBE • TROUSERS • TRUISE • TUNIC • WHITE • WOLF-HOUND • XIX CENTURY
