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The Quartier Latin

Advertising Card
ca.1897 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Iliffe & Son (publisher)
Place of origin
London (printed)

Advertising card for the monthly publication 'The Quartier Latin'. The design features a brown-haired woman wearing a long dark-blue cloak with a fur trim; she stands with her back to the viewer, her head turned to the left of the image so that it is viewed in profile. She is standing on green flooring and the wall behind her is dark-green with a pattern of gold trefoil motifs.

Object details

Categories
Printed Pages & Sheets
Periodicals
Advertising
Object type
Advertising card
TitleThe Quartier Latin
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph with gold, on card
Card
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'The Quartier Latin'. Advertising card for the monthly publication, with a design featuring a woman wearing a long dark-blue, fur-trimmed cloak. Published by Iliffe & Son, London, ca.1897.
Physical description
Advertising card for the monthly publication 'The Quartier Latin'. The design features a brown-haired woman wearing a long dark-blue cloak with a fur trim; she stands with her back to the viewer, her head turned to the left of the image so that it is viewed in profile. She is standing on green flooring and the wall behind her is dark-green with a pattern of gold trefoil motifs.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40.2cm
  • Width: 20.9cm
Measured by DH 14/02/2011
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'THE QUaRTIER LaTIN' (Lettered in white with a gold outline across the top of the design.)
  • 'ILLIFE & SON, LONDON.' (Lettered bottom-right corner of sheet.)
  • The design features the intials 'H S F' (or possibly H G F), to the right of the image.
  • 'F., H. S. (or ? H.G.). / The Quartier Latin. Advertisement card. / Signed H S F (or H G F). / Colour lithograph with gold. (15 x 7 3/8) E.1713-1925. / Presented by R. A. H. Spiers, Esq.' (Printed paper label attached to verso.)
Credit line
Presented by R. A. H. Spiers, Esq.
Object history
'The Quartier Latin' was an illustrated chap-book devoted to the pictorial and literary arts, compiled monthly in Paris and published in London.
Production
The design features the intials 'H S F' (or possibly H G F).
Subjects depicted
Trefoils
Woman
Cloak
Fur
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1713-1925

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O763465/the-quartier-latin-advertising-card-iliffe--son/
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