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Woman in evening gown leaning on a chair, ink drawing – Historic Print

Woman in evening gown leaning on a chair, ink drawing — historic drawing
Woman in evening gown leaning on a chair, ink drawing. Historic drawing from the Family Life collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Woman in evening gown leaning on a chair, ink drawing comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Woman in evening gown leaning on a chair, ink drawing

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A woman in a long evening gown leans against the back of a chair, her pose relaxed yet carefully composed, as drawn in ink. Fashion illustrations of this kind were widely circulated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when magazines and sketch artists recorded the cut, drape, and trimmings of formal dress for readers who followed the latest styles. Pen-and-ink work suited this purpose well, since fine lines could capture the fall of fabric and the outline of a silhouette with economy. The drawing offers a glimpse of how evening clothes were worn in domestic settings, where posture and gesture mattered as much as the garment itself.

Original scan1,201 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
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