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Fashion Plate

June 1880 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This fashion plate is from a volume of images from the Italian fashion periodicals La Novita and Margherita, published in the 1880s. Such plates were published from the end of the 18th century onwards, illustrating contemporary fashions.

This image offers an insight into fashion, textiles and interiors and publishing related to those subjects, as well as social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle alongside clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, much like fashion and interiors magazines do today.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
Unknown. Two women and two children at the seaside. Fashion plate showing women's dress. Italian, June 1880
Physical description
Two women and two children at the seaside. The women wear a celery green princess-line dress with red parasol and red-patterned panels; and a dark purple-black satin trained dress with brown dolman mantle. Young boy in a sailor suit and girl in a pink dress.
Dimensions
  • Height: 37cm
  • Width: 24cm
Gallery label
(11/09/2017)
This plate comes from a volume of 44 plates from La Novita (The News) and Margherita (Daisy), both published in Milan, then already famous as a centre for fashion and shopping. The images have a distinctly Italian style, with brunette models and demure dresses. In keeping with the aspirational tone of the magazines, the settings suggest wealth and status – elegant interiors, opera houses and fashionable resorts.
Credit line
Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund
Subjects depicted
Summary
This fashion plate is from a volume of images from the Italian fashion periodicals La Novita and Margherita, published in the 1880s. Such plates were published from the end of the 18th century onwards, illustrating contemporary fashions.

This image offers an insight into fashion, textiles and interiors and publishing related to those subjects, as well as social history. The models are shown in a setting which refers to a lifestyle alongside clothing. The fashion plate communicates glamour and aspiration, much like fashion and interiors magazines do today.
Collection
Accession number
E.151:27-2003

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Record createdOctober 8, 2004
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