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Title
Woman with apron and basket, 1801
Alternative Title
1801
Publication Information
Ella Strong Denison Library
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/
Description
A woman wears a pale yellow empire waist dress with elbow-length sleeves and ankle-length skirts. She wears a pink and white checked kerchief around her shoulders and tucked into her long, white apron. She wears white stockings and flat, black pointed shoes. Her left foot points toward the viewer. The woman has gold teardrop earrings and a white bonnet or mobcap. She carries a tall, thin lantern-shaped woven basket with two red balls at its base. She stands on cobblestones.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
fpc00056.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fpc/id/49
Subject
Clothing and dress
Dresses
Earrings
Hosiery
Kerchiefs
Shawls
Women's clothing
Women's hats
Women's shoes
Aprons
Baskets
Cobblestone roads
Bonnets (Hats)
Mobcaps
Stockings
19th C costume
Time Period
1800-1809
United Kingdom - Regency, 1795-1837
French - Consulate, 1799-1804
American - Jeffersonian, 1800-1824
Source
Fashion plate, engraving (print), colored, 10.375 x 13.375 inches; Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library, Macpherson Collection, Costume Plates of Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby, box 2

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