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Fashion Shop with Fashion Plates and a Paddle Steamer, Hand Colored Print, 1842
€265
$295 · £225
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1842
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Coloring
- Hand colored
- Condition
- Good. Light wear to the bottom right corner; minor nicks to the right edge. Light age toning; light handling soiling along the edges and a few small spots in the margins. Printed image clean.
- Wardrobe
- Folk finery
- Era
- 1840 to 1870, Crinoline
- Stock no.
- BG-13061-3
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
This original antique lithograph, hand colored, comes from the Galleria Universale di Tutti i Popoli del Mondo (Venice, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1842). The upper image is the interior of a fashion shop. Behind a wooden counter the shopkeeper, in a dark coat and cap, holds up a framed fashion plate to a lady in a full dark gray dress, white lace collar and bonnet, who leads a small girl in a red hood and white skirt. Bonnets stand on the counter, a glass lamp hangs from the ceiling, further fashion plates are pinned to a pillar at right, and a seated customer, a woman in blue and a man in a doorway fill the back of the room. The lower image shows a paddle steamer with a tall smoking funnel and sails set, crowded with passengers, running through choppy water past a long arcaded stone building, with other sailing boats in the distance.
The top margin is lettered "Tom. IV", "EUROPA" and "Tav. 3". The upper caption reads "Bottega di Mode con Figurini" (Fashion shop with fashion plates) and the lower "Barca a Vapore" (Steamboat).
The Italian figurino is a fashion plate, the hand colored print of the latest dress that milliners and dressmakers showed to their customers; the framed sheets in the shop are exactly that. The paddle steamer, driven by side wheels with sails kept as a reserve, was the new form of water transport of the period in which the book was published. The two scenes are grouped under the general heading for Europe rather than under a single country.
A plate that records modern life of the 1840s rather than traditional costume, it suits a dressing room, a study or a group of fashion prints.
Condition: Light wear to the bottom right corner; minor nicks to the right edge. Light age toning; light handling soiling along the edges and a few small spots in the margins. Printed image clean.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
