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At the Dentist's (Primary Title)
La Sylphide (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

Unknown (Artist)

ca. 1845
French
Prints
Works On Paper
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
European Art
Mount (blue paper support): 10 7/8 × 7 3/4 in. (27.62 × 19.69 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 6 7/8 in. (25.72 × 17.46 cm)
40.9.71
Not on view
Printed beneath image lower left: 10 e. Année 2 e. Série. Printed beneath image lower right: 9 e. Vol. e. 2 e. Liv. on. Printed beneath image in center: La Sylphide/ Chapeaux de Mariton, 2 place de la Madeleine Robes de Palmyre. Parfumerie de la/ Société hygiénique. 5 rue J.J. Rousseau./ Maisons en Vogue/ Mariton, Modes & Coiffures 2 pce. de la Madeleine/ Palmyre, Robes, Rue Laffille, No. 9/ Delisle, Nouveautés, rue de Choiseul/ Fattet, Dentiste, Rue St. Honoré, 363./ On s'abonne à la Société des Journaux de Modes réunis à Paris, r. Ste. Anne, 64./ Pour les Etats Unis à New York Mr. Thomas N. Dale 67 Liberty Street. Inscribed in graphite on mount lower right: 20. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount upper right: about 1845. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: At the Dentists.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
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