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Fashion Plate
Published by: Mme. Demorest's Mirror of Fashions (American, 1866–1877)
American
1867
Object Place: New York, New York, United States
Medium/Technique
Ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 31.8 x 22.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Doris May
Accession Number2009.4533
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionFashion plate illustrating nineteenth century women's fashion. Four women and three small girls in a pale purple and gray parlor. The women wear (from left to right) a white and light blue dress, a full gray skirt with a heavy black top and thick black detailing, a purle dress with vertical stripes and diagonal details of light green, and a black dress with red detailing. The small girls wear white dresses with pink or light blue. "Mme. Demorests Mirror of Fashions. / 473 Broadway NY"
ProvenanceBy about 2004, purchased by Susan Ward of Lexington, MA at an antique fair in Amherst, NH; purchased from Ward by Doris May of Chestnut Hill, MA; gift of May to the MFA (Accession date: September 16, 2009)