Merveilleuse: Chapeau de Paille d’Italie, Echarpe Ecossaise, Broderies à Roues
Hand-colored engraving with design for the costume of a Merveilleuse, part of the book "Incroyables et Merveilleuses," with 33 costume plates designed by Horace Vernet and engraved by Georges Jacques Gatine, published ca. 1815 in Paris. The costume in this plate consists of a white dress with long, tight sleeves with scallop-edged bell cuffs under short puff sleeves, star-like motifs on the border of the calf-length skirt, and zig-zagging ruff collar, with a thin, checked scarf of blue, black, pink, and yellow colors, crossed across the chest à la victime, marking the high, empire-style waist, a white straw hat with undulating, white wide brin, decorated with large, white feathers, white hose with a thin grid of black lozenges, and black flats with small bows on the front and thin ribbons tied around the ankles.
Artwork Details
- Title: Merveilleuse: Chapeau de Paille d’Italie, Echarpe Ecossaise, Broderies à Roues
- Designer: Horace Vernet (French, Paris 1789–1863 Paris)
- Engraver: Georges Jacques Gatine (French, Caen, ca. 1773–after 1841)
- Date: 1814
- Medium: Hand colored engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 11/16 in. (40.4 × 27.1 cm)
Plate: 14 3/16 × 9 5/16 in. (36.1 × 23.7 cm)
Album: 16 3/4 × 11 5/8 × 11/16 in. (42.5 × 29.5 × 1.7 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
- Object Number: 24.18(13)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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