Fashion Design
1914 (made)
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Illustration showing two extremely fashionably dressed women walking a borzoi dog. The women wear elaborately draped silk day dresses with hobble skirts. On the left, a pink dress with a draped peg-top skirt, trimmed with lace and a large Wedgwood cameo brooch at the waist with long lace sleeves and an ornamental puffed-silk muff trimmed with silk roses, worn with a straw cloche hat with a peaked brim and two upstanding feathers pinned by a Wedgwood cameo. On the right, a pale yellow and ice-blue silk dress with a wrap-over draped bodice and loosely draped puffball skirt, the knees tied hobble-skirt style with a large black silk bow catching up the lower part of the skirt to reveal white lace beneath, worn with an extremely long handled parasol and a flat black bergère-style hat trimmed with a miniature golden peacock with long tail-feathers. Behind them walks the borzoi.
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Materials and techniques | Black chalk and watercolour, heightened with Chinese white, and pencil |
Brief description | Jules de Ban, 1914. Women's fashions drawn for an illustration in The Gentlewoman. |
Physical description | Illustration showing two extremely fashionably dressed women walking a borzoi dog. The women wear elaborately draped silk day dresses with hobble skirts. On the left, a pink dress with a draped peg-top skirt, trimmed with lace and a large Wedgwood cameo brooch at the waist with long lace sleeves and an ornamental puffed-silk muff trimmed with silk roses, worn with a straw cloche hat with a peaked brim and two upstanding feathers pinned by a Wedgwood cameo. On the right, a pale yellow and ice-blue silk dress with a wrap-over draped bodice and loosely draped puffball skirt, the knees tied hobble-skirt style with a large black silk bow catching up the lower part of the skirt to reveal white lace beneath, worn with an extremely long handled parasol and a flat black bergère-style hat trimmed with a miniature golden peacock with long tail-feathers. Behind them walks the borzoi. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'de Ban 1914' (Signed and dated.) |
Credit line | Given by the artist |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964. |
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Accession number | E.2945-1962 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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