Robes Modèles Historiques, Marchande des Oiseaux
49th plate of album with 60 19th-century costume plates and 1 drawing of mostly women's historical costumes, featuring a variety of designs for traditional costumes from different parts of the world, as well as costumes for literary characters, including Esmeralda. This plate consists of a woman wearing a costume for a bird merchant, made up of a calf-length dress with a pink taille with semi-transparent, white fabric over the shoulders and short, ruffled lace sleeves with golden details, and a white skirt with semi-abstract golden scrolling motifs and semi-abstract thin bundles of red flowers and green leaves scattered on the fabric and lined in the borders, over a pink underskirt with a golden seamless pattern of lozenges. The same type of pattern covers her bosom, and ends on a pink ribbon tied around her neck to form a bow to the back. She wears her hair up, decorated with a headdress of a bird motif, executed with bright shades of red and blue, and similar bird botifs decorate the semi-transparent fabric on her shoulders, and form a diagonal line across her torso, and hold the different layers of fabric of her skirt. She wears white stockings with small bundles of red flowers and green leaves, and pink low heels with golden seamless patterns of lozenges, also with bird motifs executed with bright shades of blue and red. Her hands and arms are covered with long, white gloves, and she carries a blue birdcage with a pink ribbon rosette on one hand.
Artwork Details
- Title: Robes Modèles Historiques, Marchande des Oiseaux
- Artist: Designed, Printed and Published by Daydou Fils
- Date: 19th century
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 7/8 in. (44 × 30.2 cm)
Album: 17 11/16 × 12 5/8 × 1 in. (45 × 32 × 2.5 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
- Object Number: 32.46.7(49)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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