Antique Print-CRINOLINE-FARTHINGALE-FASHION-COSTUME-Gillot-Alfred Grevin-1865

Original relief print (paniconography) with hand colouring. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. The image size is ca. 26.5 x 21 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 12 x 9.3 inch. The image size is ca. 10.4 x 8.3 inch.

Plate 1: ‘La premiere des crinolines Fut une feuille de fiquier. – Alorsvoici la seconde. Victor Hugo.’ (transl: The introduction of the crinoline making a fig leaf / See here the moment. Victor Hugo.) Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850, the word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman’s dress into the required shape. In form and function it is very similar to the earlier farthingale. This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: ‘Les Filles D’Eve Album De Travestissements Plus ou Moins Historiques.’, by Andre Grevin,1865 Paris, Typography by E. Plon & Co. Aux Bureaux: du Journal Amusant et du Petit Journal Pour Rire. Typography by Henri Plon. ?The female costume over time until the 19th. century and beyond.Artists and Engravers: Alfred Grevin (French 1827-1892) was a designer and painter of costumes. He was employed by the railroad in Lyon before he started at Journal Amusant and at Petit Journal pour Rire in 1859. He was very successful. Grevin put spiritful legends below his designs. Together with Adrien Huart 1869 he founded l’Almanach des Parisiennes in 1869. Grevin was also successful as a designer and painter of theatre costumes. In 1882 he founded the Mus�e des figures, a Wax Figure Museum in Paris that carries his name. Plate by Firmin Gillot. Firmin Gillot, father of Charles Gillot (1820-1872), invented in 1852 the paniconography for which he took a patent (photoengraving in relief according to the letterpress). Later, he invented a new process, again in relief, but nonphotographic.

Condition: Very good given age. General age related toning and occasional light thumbing from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-CRINOLINE-FARTHINGALE-FASHION-COSTUME-GILLOT-ALFRED GREVIN

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