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 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: 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
  Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• 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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