"We're wearing lots of flowers this spring, especially on hats" (Fashionable Magazine), plate IX from the suite The English At Home, from Masks and Faces

Paul Gavarni [Chevalier] French

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One of the most successful lithographers of the nineteenth century, Gavarni first made a name for himself contributing illustrations to fashion magazines. Even as he shifted his focus to satirical lithography, his preferred subjects remained balls, costume, and fancy dress. The subject of this stone, the matrix from which a lithograph is printed, pokes fun at English style. "The English at Home," a series of twenty prints, forms a subset of a much larger suite, "Masks and Faces," published once daily over the course of a year in the journal "Le Paris" after Gavarni returned from a visit to London in 1851.

"We're wearing lots of flowers this spring, especially on hats" (Fashionable Magazine), plate IX from the suite The English At Home, from Masks and Faces, Paul Gavarni [Chevalier] (French, Paris 1804–1866 Paris), Lithographic stone

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