Name/Title
Women’s Fashion PlatesEntry/Object ID
2023.1.2222Scope and Content
A collection of women's fashion plates, depicting dress and bonnet styles from the late 1800's. Framed for display.Context
A fashion plate is an illustration (a plate) demonstrating the highlights of fashionable styles of clothing. Traditionally they are rendered through etching, line engraving, or lithograph and then colored by hand. They were found in ladies' fashion magazines or catalogues, which began to appear during the last decades of the eighteenth century.Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
circa 1880 - circa 1910