Design for a magazine illustration
Drawing
ca. 1932-1933 (made)
ca. 1932-1933 (made)
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This drawing is the original artwork for a feature on blouses in the German women’s magazine Die Dame. It was made by Ernest Dryden in about 1932-1933. Dryden was both a fashion designer and a fashion illustrator. The drawing includes seven blouses, lettering suggestions and instructions to the printer. The boards in the models’ hands describe the intended fabrics in detail. In fact they contain pieces of real dress fabric. Today this provides a good opportunity to study a selection of unfaded 1930s textiles. However, Dryden affixed them for a practical reason: to help the printer achieve the most accurate colour match when he came to reproduce the drawing on the printed page. Little of their texture or depth of colour would have been conveyed in the final, printed magazine version.
Object details
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| Title | Design for a magazine illustration (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and collage of fabric samples |
| Brief description | Design drawing for a feature on blouses in a German women's magazine, by Ernest Dryden, about 1932-33 |
| Physical description | Drawing of six women wearing blouses and 'BLUSEN' inscribed in pencil down the middle. Fabric samples are attached. Inscribed in pencil along the bottom. |
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| Credit line | Image reproduced courtesy of the Ernst Dryden Collection |
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| Summary | This drawing is the original artwork for a feature on blouses in the German women’s magazine Die Dame. It was made by Ernest Dryden in about 1932-1933. Dryden was both a fashion designer and a fashion illustrator. The drawing includes seven blouses, lettering suggestions and instructions to the printer. The boards in the models’ hands describe the intended fabrics in detail. In fact they contain pieces of real dress fabric. Today this provides a good opportunity to study a selection of unfaded 1930s textiles. However, Dryden affixed them for a practical reason: to help the printer achieve the most accurate colour match when he came to reproduce the drawing on the printed page. Little of their texture or depth of colour would have been conveyed in the final, printed magazine version. |
| Bibliographic reference | 'Divinely elegant : the world of Ernst Dryden', Anthony Lipmann, Pavilion, 1989 |
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| Accession number | E.3655-1983 |
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| Record created | December 18, 2003 |
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