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ca. 1890 (made)
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Fashion plate showing a bride and bridesmaid in a church interior, the bride wearing a full-length white dress with veil and the bridesmaid in a fur-trimmed blue dress and blue hat, carrying a white fan.

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Object type
Materials and techniques
engraving coloured by hand
Brief description
Bridal fashion plate by an anonymous designer, hand-coloured engraving, Paris, ca. 1890
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a bride and bridesmaid in a church interior, the bride wearing a full-length white dress with veil and the bridesmaid in a fur-trimmed blue dress and blue hat, carrying a white fan.
Dimensions
  • 1918th height: 12.5in
  • Width: 7.875in
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1916-1918, London: HMSO, 1920
Marks and inscriptions
  • LEFRANCO (in bottom left corner)
  • signature (unreadable) and number 10 (possibly cut off) (in bottom right corner)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Osburn
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1916-1918, London: HMSO, 1920
Collection
Accession number
E.43-1918

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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