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Fashion plate from Godey’s Lady’s Book

March 1843

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, United States

Women’s fashion in the 1840s consciously echoed the shape of a Gothic arch, as this 1843 fashion plate illustrates.

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Details

Title: Fashion plate from Godey’s Lady’s Book
Date Created: March 1843
Physical Dimensions: 6 x 9 3/4 inches (image)
Provenance: Collection of Lynne Zacek Bassett
Type: Print
Original Source: Collection of Lynne Zacek Bassett
Medium: Engraving

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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