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Work record [refid 13]
House of Worth (Firm) (French fashion design firm, 1858-1956); Xavier Gosé (Spanish illustrator, 1876-1915)
French
1913 (publication)
An example of the new mode of fashion illustration which showed the figures in action, in a genre setting; "rather than simply drawing a mannequin in the outfit, like most previous fashion illustrators, [they] depicted the model in various dramatic and narrative situations."
Sur la Terrasse: Robes d’après-midi de Worth; Gazette du Bon Ton--No 7; Mai 1913--Pl. IV; plate signed Gosé

Paris, Ile-de-France, France [publication]

ink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)
25.4 x 19.1 cm (width)
partOf Gazette du Bon Ton [periodical] [Core 4 Sample Database,  refid="13" relids="w_9"]
publicDomain

Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)
[source, description] Davis, Mary E.; Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism, Berkley CA: University of California Press, 2006  (0520245423)

Art Deco; Twentieth century
decorative arts; domestic life; genre; Fashion and art; Fashion design; balastrade; urn; planter; walking dresses; hat
offset printing; pochoir
On the Terrace: Afternoon dresses by the House of Worth[en, translated, preferred] Sur la Terrasse: Robes d’après-midi de Worth [fr, inscribed, alternate]
illustrations (layout features); fashion illustrations
 
image courtesy Allan Kohl
Image record [refid 115]
Kohl, Allan
03/15/2009 (creation)
[imageOf 13, Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)]
publicDomain
Allan Kohl; Minneapolis College of Art & Design Visual Resource Collection
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Plate IV from Gazette du Bon Ton, Volume 1, No. 7, May 1913

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Last modified March 11, 2010