Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames

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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 is dated 5 May, 1840.

The plate illustrates a lady's and young girl's outfit - both suitable for a day at the races. Its title is 'Modes de Longchamps'.

Longchamps and Auteuil are racecourses in the Bois de Boulogne - a 2,140 acre park planned along English lines by Napoleon and situated on the western edge of Paris. The racecourse lawns were ideal settings for displaying the latest fashions.

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• Online ID: 000-100-087-194-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 24.34
• Date: 1823 - 1861
  1840
  
• Material: Inscription: Modes de Paris
  Paper. Inscription: Modes de Longchamps
  Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 8.90" x 5.40"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
  Fashion plates
  
• Who: Petit Courrier des Dames
  
• 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 'modes de longchamps' for a woman and a young girl, from Petit Courrier des Dames, Paris, number 1636, 5 May, 1840
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, p 98. 
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