Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from a scrap album containing a selection of 19th century plates. The plate is from Le Petit Courrier des Dames, a weekly fashion magazine published in Paris. Dated 20 October, 1841, it illustrates a woman's satin mantle.

A mantle is a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape. This long, fur-trimmed example is shown from the front and back, in two different colours. The bonnet is made of African velvet.

Le Petit Courrier des Dames (1822-65) included one or two fashion plates with each weekly issue. The plates are not usually signed but the styles of the better known artists are easily recognisable and identified.

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• Online ID: 000-100-104-875-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 154.29
• Date: 1841
  
• Material: Paper
  Document / plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 14.80" x 10.00"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates
  
• Who: Petit Courrier des Dames
  
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• Description: Fashion plate showing a woman in a long satin mantle trimmed with fur and hooded, she wears a bonnet and the back view of the mantle is also shown, from Petit Courrier des Dames, 20 October 1841
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, p 64. 
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