Fashion Plate (Object Name)
La Mode (Series Title)

Unknown (Artist)

ca. 1830
French
Prints
Works On Paper
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Mount (blue paper support): 11 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (29.21 × 38.74 cm)
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 5 11/16 in. (23.65 × 14.45 cm)
40.9.133
Not on view
Signed in plate lower right: Tuiel, sc.
Printed above image in center: La Mode. Printed beneath image lower left: G:i/ Pl. LVI. Printed beneath image lower right: T.3. Printed beneath image in center: Toilette habillée du matin/ Chapeau de Paille d'Italie d'Herbault- Fichu de tulle- Robe de mousseline brodée,/ Mantille de mousseline brodée- Manches nouvelles- Gands demi-longr-/ L'Administration de la Mode est Rue du Helder, No. 25. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: These plates are interesting/ as the early work of Gavarni before his/ famous cartoons and/ the life he expressed later/ in the cartoons shows in/ them.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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