Women's dresses by Mme Gagelin Opigez with bonnets by Mme Royer; and child's pelisse by Maillard, Paris. Hand-coloured engraving from La Mode, c.1839.

Women's day dresses and bonnets. Green pelisse robe with ermine muff, yellow bonnet trimmed with pink roses, and blue striped day dress with similary trimmed white bonnet. In between, a child in a purple pelisse with white fur trimming and a pink bonnet.

Given by the House of Worth

This print is part of a very large collection of reference material including fashion plates, engravings, original drawings and illustrations that were collected by the fashion design house of Paquin at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. Many bear the stamp of Paquin's archivist at the time. They were acquired by the V&A in 1957 when, following the closure of the combined houses of Paquin and Worth, the Worth/Paquin archives and design books were donated to the Museum.

E.22396:419-1957