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Print

c.1776 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print showing an illustration of male and female headdress.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Print, illustration of headdresses (one of seventy), quarter-bound in a leather volume with gold tooled, marbled boards. Etching published by Mondhare, Paris.
Physical description
Print showing an illustration of male and female headdress.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 14.6cm
  • Size of volume width: 11.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
(Lettered with title etc.)
Object history
This print is one of seventy illustrations of male and female headdress from sets including 'La Parure des Dames Ou Ire Collection des plus belles Coëffures Inventée depuis l'Année 1776 et ainsi de suite' (4); 'Coeffures du Matin or les Negliges Charmans' (2); 'Nouveaux Bonnets Galants fait pour servir de Demie Parure' (2).
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.174-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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