album;
print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1866,0512.2345-2353
- Description
-
Various extracts from books, including chapters and cuttings, organised by date:
Chapter XV, "Of the vanity of costly and brave apparell"
Cutting "Interregnum"
Cutting "Charles II"
"Essay on female dress, and the various methods whereby women endeavor to render themselves agreable to the men: - from Dr Alexander's History of Women", dated June 1779 and taken from the 'Universal Magazine'
"The European Magazine. Anecdotes of dress", dated February 1793
"On the great importance of dress", text to the "Universal Magazine" from March 1798
"On female dress", dated February 1799
"Remarks on modern female manners, as distinguished by indifference to character, and indecendy of dress / From the 'Reflections political and moral at the conclusion of the war' by John Bowles, Esq", dated October 1802
"Desultory remarks on fashion", by Alexander Scotus, dated June 1808
Letterpress
- Production date
- 1779-1808 (dated text)
- Dimensions
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Height: 330 millimetres (album sheet)
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Width: 260 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See 1866,0512.2109-2110 for comment on the album.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,0512.2345-2353
