At the Opera (Primary Title)
La Moniteur de la Mode (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

Jules David, French, 1808 - 1892 (Artist)

ca. 1865
French
Works On Paper
Prints
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Mount (blue paper support): 11 1/4 × 8 in. (28.58 × 20.32 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 in. (26.04 × 17.78 cm)
40.9.82
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: Jules David.
Printed beneath image lower right: "Reville & Gervais" and "(93)". Printed beneath image in center: Le Moniteur de la Mode./ Journal du Grand Monde./ Coiffure avec grappes d'Acier d'Alexandrine, Toilettes de la Mon. St. Laurent & Sain (rue de la Paix./ Bouquet de Royer, Etoffes de la Chaussée d'Antin, Chaussure de Dufossée (r. de la Paix./ Bureaux du Journal, 43, Rue neuve Vivienne/ Paris. Printed lower left: New-York E.B. Strange et Brother. Printed lower right: London at the Moniteur Office, F. Dumus 15 Greek Street Soho. Inscribed in graphite on mount lower left: 31. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount upper right: about 1865. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: Again the Opera-.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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