print;
costume print
- Museum number
- 2018,7049.1
- Description
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Plate 4: La Dissimulée: Fashion print showing an elegant young woman wearing a large bonnet and a mantle over gown with lace cuffs and ruffles on the bodice, a tiny pocket watch hanging from her waist, the index finger of her right hand pressed to her lips
Engraving
- Production date
- 1770 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 268 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 187 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of six fashion prints engraved after Schenau and Wille around 1770, judging by the costumes shown. Each of the ladies represented was described by a quality. The British Museum also possesses no. 5, 'La Nonchalante': see 2018,7049.2.
Lit: A. Frölich-Schauseil, 'Schenau (1737-1806)', Petersburg, 2018, no. GA 54.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2018,7049.1
