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The New Fashions

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Vertical rectangle. Two fashionably dressed women walking past a hat shop. A bonnet on a hat stand in the show window at left. Both women wearing gray hooped skirts, poke bonnets, three-quarter black velvet capes and carrying light gray muffs.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892
Date
1858–60
Credit Line
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and tan, blue and gray-blue washes over graphite on thin off-white wove paper
Dimensions
H x W: 25 × 18.3 cm (9 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Type
figures
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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