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Fashion Design

1914 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 54cm
  • Width: 39.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
'de Ban 1914' (Signed and dated.)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.2945-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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