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Fashion Illustration
late 1930s (designed)
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This original fashion illustration, signed simply "MARQUIS", was probably drawn for a newspaper or magazine to accompany a fashion article. It shows an elegantly dressed woman in a late 1930s coat with a swinging swagger back and a deep fur hem and a smart black hat and skirt standing at an open window, glancing to her side towards a decorative stand which is made in the form of a little black boy in a turban holding aloft a little vase of flowers.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | pen and ink and wash |
| Brief description | "Marquis". Fashion illustration of a woman in a fur-trimmed swagger jacket and hat, possibly designed by Roger Worth. Black ink. Paris, late 1930s. |
| Physical description | Fashion illustration of a woman in a fur-trimmed swagger jacket and hat standing at a window, with a 'blackamoor' statuette holding a vase of flowers depicted in lower left corner. Black ink and wash drawing. |
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| Credit line | Given by the House of Worth |
| Object history | NB. While the term 'blackamoor' has been used in this record, it has since fallen from usage and is now considered offensive. The term is repeated in this record in its original historical context. |
| Summary | This original fashion illustration, signed simply "MARQUIS", was probably drawn for a newspaper or magazine to accompany a fashion article. It shows an elegantly dressed woman in a late 1930s coat with a swinging swagger back and a deep fur hem and a smart black hat and skirt standing at an open window, glancing to her side towards a decorative stand which is made in the form of a little black boy in a turban holding aloft a little vase of flowers. |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964 |
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| Accession number | E.23025-1957 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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