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Place of origin	England (made)

Album consisting of ninety-seven pages of paper with textile samples and fashion plates attached. The album has a green parchment binding and more than half of the pages are blank. The samples and fashion plates are usually companied by descriptive notes.

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Categories	Fashion Textiles Books Fashion Plates
Object type	Album
Materials and techniques	Paper, parchment, textiles
Brief description	Album with textile samples and fashion plates, compiled by Barbara Johnson, England, 1746-1823.
Physical description	Album consisting of ninety-seven pages of paper with textile samples and fashion plates attached. The album has a green parchment binding and more than half of the pages are blank. The samples and fashion plates are usually companied by descriptive notes.
Dimensions	Height: 15in Width: 9.75in Spine depth: 2 - 3.25in Weight: 10.62kg
Production	Compiled by Barbara Johnson between 1746-1823.
Bibliographic references	Serena Dyer, 'Barbara Johnson's Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746-1823'. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 42, no. 3 (2019), pp. 263-82. Natalie Rothstein ed., Barbara Johnson's Album of Fashions and Fabrics (London: Thames and Hudson, 1987), facsimile with introduction. Serena Dyer, 'Material accounting: A sartorial account book', Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, 2021, chapter 2, 21-47.
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.219-1973

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Record created	October 18, 2007
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O140029/album-unknown/

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