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Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames

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Postcard of Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames.
000-100-087-204-C
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Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames

This hand-coloured fashion plate is from Le Petit Courrier des Dames, a weekly fashion magazine published in Paris. The plate is one in a series entitled, 'Modes de Paris' and illustrates two day dresses. It is dated, 12 April, 1856.

The dress skirts are very full and would have been supported either by stiffened petticoats of crinoline (horsehair) or by the artificial crinoline or hooped cage which had been introduced early in 1856. The plate is signed, 'A.M.....' and 'Hopwood et Préval'.

E Préval was one of the most prolific fashion plate artists of the 1860s. Others who contributed to Le Petit Courrier de Dames were A Paquet, A de Taverne, Laure Noël and Hervy.


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Online ID: 000-100-087-204-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 24.44
Date: 1823 - 1861
1856
Material: Inscription: Modes de Paris
Paper. Inscription: A. M......... ; Hopwood(?) et Preval
Dimensions: 10.70" x 7.30" mounted
What: Document / plate, fashion
Plate, fashion
Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
Fashion plates
Who: Hopwood (?)
Petit Courrier des Dames
Preval
Where: France, Paris
France, Paris
Event:
Description: One of forty-nine fashion plates entitled Modes de Paris, from the Petit Courrier des Dames, 1823 - 1861
Fashion plate showing two day dresses, signed 'A. M... and Hopwood (?) et Preval', from Petit Courrier des Dames, Paris, number 2887, 12 April, 1856
References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, pp 67 & 159. 
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