Set of Six Hand-Colored Godey's Lady's Book Fashion Plates.
Philadelphia: Godey's Lady's Book , 1879 to 1881.
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Set of Six Antique Hand-Colored Godey's Lady's Book Fashion Plates; Handsomely Framed
A charming set of six antique hand-colored fashion plates from Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular and influential American women's magazine of the nineteenth century. The plates depict fashionably dressed women and children modeling the elaborate bustled gowns, tailored walking suits, and bridal attire of the late 1870s and early 1880s. Comprised of Godey's Fashions for August 1879, November 1879, October 1879, March 1880, August 1880, and April 1881. Framed in a bird's-eye maple frame, hand-made in London, England. Each plate is in very good condition with toning to the paper consistent with age. The pieces measure 13 inches by 12 inches. A decorative set, very well suited to display.
Godey's Lady's Book, published in Philadelphia by Louis A. Godey beginning in 1830, was the most widely circulated and influential American magazine of its era, reaching a peak of some 150,000 subscribers before the Civil War. Edited for four decades by the pioneering Sarah Josepha Hale, it combined fiction, poetry, music, and household advice with the elaborate hand-colored fashion plates for which it is best remembered. These plates, colored by hand by a large staff of women colorists, offer one of the finest visual records of the progression of nineteenth-century American women's dress. Godey sold the magazine in 1877, and it continued publication under successive owners into the 1890s. The present plates date from that later period, capturing the dramatic silhouettes, bustles, and trains of high Victorian fashion.
Set of Six Hand-Colored Godey's Lady's Book Fashion Plates.
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