Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames

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 13 October, 1860, the plate illustrates an evening dress and day dress.

The dress skirts are enormous, supported by the artificial crinoline or hooped cage which had been introduced early in 1856. The plate is signed, 'Pauquet' and 'Gervais'.

A Pauquet also produced drawings for Le Journal des Demoiselles and The Queen. Other artists who contributed to Le Petit Courrier de Dames were A de Taverne, Laure Noël, Hervy and Madame de Closmenil.

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Online ID:	000-100-104-882-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland H.RHI 154.50
Date:	1860
Material:	Paper. Inscription: PAUQUET ; GERVAIS
Dimensions:	14.80" x 10.00"
What:	Document / plate, fashion
Subject:	Fashion plates
Who:	Gervais Pauquet Petit Courrier des Dames
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Description:	Fashion plate showing an evening dress trimmed with gold and flowers with a similar head dress and a day dress and bonnet for outdoor wear, from Petit Courrier des Dames, 13 October 1860
References:	Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, pp 67 & 159.
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