Name/Title
Fashion illustrations, 1860sEntry/Object ID
2022.11.53Scope and Content
Hand colored, engraved, fashion illustrations removed from two popular women's magazines in the 1860s.
Each two-page spread features a group of women and children of the leisure class in elaborate clothing, hair and hats. Most images have been hand colored.
9 inches high by 11 inches wide.
Thirteen pairs of pages from "Godey's Fashion" from 1862-1864.
Pages have been pasted to white gauze.
One left-hand page has the gauze intact but the right-hand page missing.
Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, [Capewell & Kimmel, sc.] was an American women's magazine published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1878. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War.
Two pairs of pages of "Les Modes Parisiennes" from "Petersons Magazine," 1868 and 1874. Pages are not backed with gauze.Context
Fashion plates influenced American attitudes about dressing to show a person's social status, the importance of looking to far-off Paris to follow trends, femininity, and provides a record of what upper-class women were presented as aspirational clothing.Acquisition
Accession
2022.11Source or Donor
McEnroe, Therese "Tess" K.Acquisition Method
DonationLocation
Drawer
AC flat file 4Room
Art Conservation RoomCreate Date
February 23, 2022Update Date
July 6, 2024
