Plate 49, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Magazine of Female Fashion of London and Paris

Object Details

Publisher

R. Phillips, British, active early 19th century

For

Magazine of Female Fashion of London and Paris, London, England

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Fashion illustration featuring a woman on the left in a floor-length dress that includes a long, white skirt and a knee-length top layer that opens and features black dots against a pink background. Her curly, brown hair is covered with a matching pink and black hat with feathers emerging from the top. She appears in profile, facing another woman on the right who wears a long, white gown and a red shawl or wrap with a colorful pattern at the ends that incorporates paisley motifs. The woman on the right also wears long, yellow gloves and a red and yellow hat that sits on top of her brown hair. Both women wear white, pointy shoes and stand on top of a grey ground.

Credit Line

Gift of Cooper Union Library

February 1802

Accession Number

1980-36-5860

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

costume & accessories

Object Name

Print

Type

Print

Medium

Etching, hand-colored with brush and watercolor on cream paper

Dimensions

20.5 × 12.5 cm (8 1/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)

made in

London, England

published in

London, England

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Record ID

chndm_1980-36-5860

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq487eb7225-2841-4e78-8c70-27fcb1263c13