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Pictorial History of Female Costume from the year 1798 to 1900

Print
late 18th century to early 20th century (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

One of 3,857 fashion plates, including etchings, lithographs and wood engravings, coloured by hand. Mounted on brown sugar-paper, bound in red canvas boards. Volumes 1, 3 and 7, lettered with title etc.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePictorial History of Female Costume from the year 1798 to 1900 (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching, lithography, wood engraving, hand-colouring.
Brief description
One of 3,857 hand-coloured fashion plates, from the 'Pictorial History of Female Costume from the year 1798 to 1900'. Collected and arranged into volumes by Simmons and Waters, Book and Print Dealers. English, French and Spanish, late 18th to early 20th century.
Physical description
One of 3,857 fashion plates, including etchings, lithographs and wood engravings, coloured by hand. Mounted on brown sugar-paper, bound in red canvas boards. Volumes 1, 3 and 7, lettered with title etc.
Dimensions
  • Size of volumes height: 55.9cm
  • Size of volumes width: 39.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968. London: HMSO, 1969.
Credit line
Given by the Bishopsgate Institute
Object history
The plates are taken from The Ladies' Magazine, La Belle Assemblée, Gazette of Fashion, Ackermann's Repository, Beau Monde, The Ladies' Cabinet, The Queen, Myra's Journal, Weldon's Illustrated Dressmaker, and the like, including some title pages.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969.
Collection
Accession number
E.3660-1968

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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