Pictorial History of Female Costume from the year 1838 to 1867
Fashion Plate
1838-1867 (first published)
1838-1867 (first published)
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One of 3,857 fashion plates, including etchings, lithographs and wood engravings, coloured by hand. Mounted on brown sugar-paper, bound in red canvas boards. Volumes 1, 3 and 7, lettered with title etc.
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| Materials and techniques | Etching, lithography, wood engraving, hand-colouring |
| Brief description | One of 817 hand-coloured fashion plates collected and bound in a volume titled 'Pictorial History of Female Costume from the year 1838 to 1867.' One of a large collection of fashion plates collected and arranged into a series of volumes titled 'Pictorial History of Female Costume from the year 1798 to 1900'. by Simmons and Waters, Book and Print Dealers. English, French and Spanish, late 18th to early 20th century. |
| Physical description | One of 3,857 fashion plates, including etchings, lithographs and wood engravings, coloured by hand. Mounted on brown sugar-paper, bound in red canvas boards. Volumes 1, 3 and 7, lettered with title etc. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Bishopsgate Institute |
| Object history | The plates are taken from The Ladies' Magazine, La Belle Assemblée, Gazette of Fashion, Ackermann's Repository, Beau Monde, The Ladies' Cabinet, The Queen, Myra's Journal, Weldon's Illustrated Dressmaker, and the like, including some title pages. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969. |
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| Accession number | E.2625-1968 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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