A Lady in Full Dress (Primary Title)
Ladies Magazine (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

Unknown (Artist)

1770
English
Prints
Works On Paper
engraving on laid paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 1/16 in. (20.64 × 12.86 cm)
Plate: 6 3/8 × 4 1/4 in. (16.19 × 10.8 cm)
Mount (blue paper support): 10 × 13 in. (25.4 × 33.02 cm)
40.9.138
Not on view
Printed above image: For the Ladies Magazine. Printed beneath image in center: A Lady in Full Dress/ in Aug.t 1770. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount: This is the original/ of the first plate/ ever printed for/ a dressmaker to/ copy- 1770- up/ to this __(illegible) dolls/ were dressed and/ rented out as/ models.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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