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Fashion Design

1920 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A drawing of a woman in a draped satin or velvet evening coat trimmed with fur and bands of rich embroidery. The coat has batwing sleeves accented with embroidery and bands of embroidery around the shoulders, neck and hem, contained within borders of fur, which also edges the sleeve openings. The dress beneath is almost completely concealed save for a double train of transparent lace that emerges from the hem of the coat.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Coloured chalks, ink and other media on toned paper
Brief description
Jules de Ban for Lucile Ltd. Design for a woman's fur-trimmed evening coat, 1920. Sepia chalk.
Physical description
A drawing of a woman in a draped satin or velvet evening coat trimmed with fur and bands of rich embroidery. The coat has batwing sleeves accented with embroidery and bands of embroidery around the shoulders, neck and hem, contained within borders of fur, which also edges the sleeve openings. The dress beneath is almost completely concealed save for a double train of transparent lace that emerges from the hem of the coat.
Dimensions
  • Average size of sheets in set height: 41.9cm
  • Average size of sheets in set width: 27.3cm
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 1920' (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.2917-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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