costume print
- Museum number
- 1925,0404.19
- Description
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Fashion print with a young woman to left, seen from behind, her body to right, her head turned to left, wearing a dress with a floral pattern and fingerless goves, and another young woman to right, seen from the front, wearing a striped dress with a bow at the chest and waist. 1836
Hand-coloured lithograph, pasted onto card (?)
- Production date
- 1836
- Dimensions
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Height: 156 millimetres (image; sheet greatly trimmed)
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Width: 125 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The print has plate number 'DXXII' in Armelhault & Bocher.
There are two entries for this lithograph in Armelhault & Bocher.
The main entry is no. 2395, under the section of the catalogue 'Costumes et Modes', sub-section 'La Mode' which describes nine lithographs forming part of a series of 'Costumes', format in-8, published in the periodical 'La Mode'.
There are, however, individual cross-references to each of these nine lithographs, under the section of the catalogue 'Revues et Journaux', sub-section 'La Mode', pp.326-327, where they are listed among eleven lithographs for various articles ('par [sic] divers articles') in 'La Mode, revue des modes, galerie des moeurs, album des salons', published in Paris in livraisons in-8, appearing on Saturdays from October 1829. It is also stated that the subtitle changed from 1831 to 'Revue du monde élegant' and in July 1842 to 'Revue politique et littéraireand that the last issue was on 15 September 1854.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Mode
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0404.19