Paper doll sketch with cut-out children's dresses on gray – Antique Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Paper doll sketch with cut-out children's dresses on gray. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Paper doll sketch with cut-out children's dresses on gray
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A sketch of cut-out paper dresses laid out on a gray ground puts the garments themselves at the center, each drawn as a flat silhouette ready to be fitted onto a paper figure. Paper dolls with removable wardrobes were a popular children's toy in Europe and America through the 19th and early 20th centuries, and their outfits often echoed adult fashion at a smaller scale. Pictures like this show how children's clothing was imagined and planned, with sleeves, collars and skirts treated as patterns rather than worn clothes. The plain gray backdrop isolates each dress, so its shape and cut become the main subject.
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g05435_ |
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