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Paris Dress

Fashion Plate
December 1801 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Two women in clinging white dresses with low cut necklines, one with a red scarf draped about her shoulders, the other's dress trimmed with red ribbons, both holding small red fans and wearing white and gold draped turbans.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleParis Dress (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving, coloured by hand
Brief description
"Paris Dress". Fashion plate engraved by Henry Mutlow for the Ladies' Magazine, December 1801
Physical description
Two women in clinging white dresses with low cut necklines, one with a red scarf draped about her shoulders, the other's dress trimmed with red ribbons, both holding small red fans and wearing white and gold draped turbans.
Marks and inscriptions
(Lettered with publishers' names, date and title)
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.249-1955

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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