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

Héloïse Suzanne Colin Leloir, French, 1820 - 1873 (Artist)

ca. 1845
French
Works On Paper
Prints
hand colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (23.5 × 17.15 cm)
Mount (blue paper support): 12 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (31.12 × 23.5 cm)
40.9.173
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: H. Colin.
Printed beneath image lower right: 10 V. No. 21. Printed beneath image in center: La Sylphide/ Burnous et Etoffes de la Maison (Delisle) Fleurs de (Batton) Livrée de Jockey de (Beckev) Gants (Mayev)/ On s'abonne á Paris, á la Direction Rue St Anne, 64. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount upper right: About 1845. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: Servant probably/ from the Barbados-.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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