Fashion Plate
August 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 and publishing related to those subjects, as well as social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle alongside clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, much like fashion and interiors magazines do today.
This image offers an insight into fashion, textiles and interiors and publishing related to those subjects, as well as social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle alongside clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, much like fashion and interiors magazines do today.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | hand-coloured engraving |
| Brief description | Unknown. Three seaside dresses. Fashion plate showing women's dress. Italian, August 1880 |
| Physical description | Two women and a girl at the seaside, On the left, a woman with long loose hair and a straw hat tied behind, in a blue walking dress with red-patterned scarf over her shoulders, carrying red parasol and reticule, and a girl with a white dress with pink spot and stripes. Seated on a rock is a woman in a hooded white robe with red, blue and yellow embroidered borders and matching tassels, probably a beach robe or bathing costume cover-up. |
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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 and publishing related to those subjects, as well as social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle alongside clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, much like fashion and interiors magazines do today. |
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| Accession number | E.151:29-2003 |
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| Record created | October 8, 2004 |
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