Grandmother Reading (Primary Title)
Les Modes Parisiennes (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

Unknown (Artist)

1879
French
Prints
Works On Paper
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Mount (blue paper support): 13 × 10 in. (33.02 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (29.85 × 19.69 cm)
40.9.95
Not on view
Printed beneath image lower left: Pl. 390. Printed beneath image lower right: "No. 1" and "1er Avril 1879." Printed beneath image in center: Les Modes Parisiennes/ Bureaux 25 Rue de Lille/ Ceinture- Régente et Corsets cuirasse de Mmes. de Vertus soeurs. 12. r. Auber Parfumerie- Orixa/ de L. Legrand fr. des Cours de Russie et d'Italie. 207. r. St. Honoré- Foulards et Cachemires de L'Inde/ pour robes et Costumes Malle des Indes. 24-26 Passage Verdeau. Manufacture de Chaussures. Inscribed in ink in lower margin: 1879. Inscribed in graphite on mount lower right: 44. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount, upper right: 1879; and in center: Grandmother/ reads to the children-.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell

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