Fashion Plate
ca. 1880 (published)
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This fashion plate is from a volume of images from the Italian fashion periodicals La Novita and Margherita, published in the 1880s. Such plates were published from the end of the 18th century onwards, illustrating contemporary fashions.
This image offers an insight into fashion, textiles and interiors, as well as publishing related to those subjects, and social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle as a context for the clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, in the same way that fashion and interiors magazines do today.
This image offers an insight into fashion, textiles and interiors, as well as publishing related to those subjects, and social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle as a context for the clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, in the same way that fashion and interiors magazines do today.
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Materials and techniques | hand-coloured engraving |
Brief description | Unknown. Two walking dresses. Fashion plate in a volume showing women's dress. Italian, c.1880 |
Physical description | Two women in walking dresses with trains, one in pale purple, the other bottle green. A feather-trimmed hat on the left, a feather-trimmed straw bonnet on the right. |
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Credit line | Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund |
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Summary | This fashion plate is from a volume of images from the Italian fashion periodicals La Novita and Margherita, published in the 1880s. Such plates were published from the end of the 18th century onwards, illustrating contemporary fashions. This image offers an insight into fashion, textiles and interiors, as well as publishing related to those subjects, and social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle as a context for the clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, in the same way that fashion and interiors magazines do today. |
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Accession number | E.151:3-2003 |
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Record created | October 8, 2004 |
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