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Fashion Plate

1850 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hand-coloured engraving showing women's fashions. Two women and a small boy in an interior looking at baby clothes. The boy wears a black cap, cloak and frock with white pantalettes and high buttoned gaiters. The standing woman in a brown day dress with a cutaway jacket and blue waistcoat front to the bodice holds up a baby's cap. Beside them is a woman in a green skirt and black jacket with a baby's jacket in her lap. In the background a nun in an elaborate headdress can be seen through a doorway with a lambrequin and curtain. Also in the background, a piano with candle-sconces, an artist's canvas (turned around) on an easel, a large framed picture on the wall, a table with scissors and spools of thread. In the foreground is a child's ball.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
Unknown. Women's and boy's day dresses for the Journal des Demoiselles. Paris, 1850.
Physical description
Hand-coloured engraving showing women's fashions. Two women and a small boy in an interior looking at baby clothes. The boy wears a black cap, cloak and frock with white pantalettes and high buttoned gaiters. The standing woman in a brown day dress with a cutaway jacket and blue waistcoat front to the bodice holds up a baby's cap. Beside them is a woman in a green skirt and black jacket with a baby's jacket in her lap. In the background a nun in an elaborate headdress can be seen through a doorway with a lambrequin and curtain. Also in the background, a piano with candle-sconces, an artist's canvas (turned around) on an easel, a large framed picture on the wall, a table with scissors and spools of thread. In the foreground is a child's ball.
Credit line
Given by the House of Worth
Object history
This print is part of a very large collection of reference material including fashion plates, engravings, original drawings and illustrations that were collected by the fashion design house of Paquin at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. Many bear the stamp of Paquin's archivist at the time. They were acquired by the V&A in 1957 when, following the closure of the combined houses of Paquin and Worth, the Worth/Paquin archives and design books were donated to the Museum.
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964
Collection
Accession number
E.22396:276-1957

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