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Journal des Dames et des Modes

Fashion Plate
1816 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour print showing women's daywear.

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Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Journal des Dames et des Modes (published title)
  • Douillette de Soie (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured etching
Brief description
Unidentified printmaker (possibly Georges Jacques Gatine) after Horace Vernet, ‘Douillette de Soie’, fashion plate showing women's daywear from the Journal des Dames et des Modes, hand-coloured etching, Paris, 1816.
Physical description
Colour print showing women's daywear.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 20.3cm
  • Cut to width: 11.9cm
Measured by SH 25/07/2010.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Costume Parisien. 1816. Pouillette de Soie' (Lettered)
  • '1608' (Numbered)
Credit line
Given by Mr James Laver CBE
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Other number
1608
Collection
Accession number
E.1026-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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