Name/Title
A visual history of costume : the eighteenth centuryEntry/Object ID
GT733.V57 v.4 1983Description
Part of a series of easy-to-use reference guides on the history of dress, with each book covering one century. The central part of each book is a series of illustrations, in black and white and colour arranged chronologically, taken from the time of the dress itself. These include oil paintings, photographs, engravings, woodcuts and line drawings from a wide range of sources. By the use of such material the reader is given an idea of what was worn and how, without the distortions and loss of detail which modern line drawings can entail. Each illustration is captioned under the labels of head, body and accessories. The clothes are described, explained and interpreted.Collection
Titi Halle/Cora Ginsburg LLC CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
costume--england, costume--great britain, costume--history--18th centuryBook Details
Author
Aileen RibeiroVolume/Number/Issue
4Publisher
BatsfordDate Published
1983Date Printed
1986ISBN
0713440910Notes
Length: 144