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Christmas and New Year's Party Fashion Plate

Fashion Plate
December 1875 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Landscape format plate, set in a ballroom draped with garlands, showing 12 women and 8 small children mostly in party frocks, one small boy in a brown suit. Two women in the background wear long-sleeved day dresses, and a third wears a formal reception gown with elbow length sleeves. The other women all wear elaborately bustled and embellished evening gowns with low necklines and short sleeves. A small girl in the centre foreground holds a fashionably dressed doll, and another to the far left holds a doll dressed as a Polchinelle (the French version of Mr. Punch).


Object details

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Object type
TitleChristmas and New Year's Party Fashion Plate (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
Christmas and New Year's Party Fashion Plate December 1875. The Young Ladies' Journal
Physical description
Landscape format plate, set in a ballroom draped with garlands, showing 12 women and 8 small children mostly in party frocks, one small boy in a brown suit. Two women in the background wear long-sleeved day dresses, and a third wears a formal reception gown with elbow length sleeves. The other women all wear elaborately bustled and embellished evening gowns with low necklines and short sleeves. A small girl in the centre foreground holds a fashionably dressed doll, and another to the far left holds a doll dressed as a Polchinelle (the French version of Mr. Punch).
Marks and inscriptions
(Lettered with publishers' names, date and title)
Associated object
E.1186-1935 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1955-1956 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection
Accession number
E.321-1955

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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