Fashion plate, from Sylvia's Home Journal

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from Sylvia's Home Journal, a magazine published in London. The plate illustrates fur-trimmed day wear for two women and is headed, 'Supplement to Sylvia's Home Journal November 1888'.

The bottom of the plate is marked, 'The Newest French Fashions Expressly Modelled For Sylvia's Home Journal/Printed in Paris'.

Sylvia's Home Journal began life in 1865 as 'The Young Englishwoman'. It changed its name in 1877 and continued in circulation until 1895. Throughout this period it published good quality imported French plates.

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• Online ID: 000-100-087-407-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 60.1
• Date: 1888
  Probably 1881
  
• Material: Paper. Inscription: The Newest French Fashions Expressly Modelled For Sylvia's Home Journal ; A. Bodin (?) ; E. Preval ; Ad. Goubaud Et Fils Edrs Paris
  Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 11.70 " x 8.70"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
  Fashion plates
  
• Who: A. Bodin
  E. Preval
  Goubaud et Fils
  Sylvia's Home Journal
  
• Where: England, London
  
• Event:
• Description: One of three fashion plates from Sylvia's Home Journal, showing women's and children's wear, 1888, 1889 and one plate possibly 1881
  Fashion plate showing day wear for two women and a young girl, signed 'E. Preval' and possibly 'A. Bodin', from Sylvia's Home Journal, London, possibly 1881
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, p 109. 
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