Collage Featuring Fashion Plate Wood Engravings "Circa 1800"

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A collage featuring fashion plate wood engravings on paper, titled Circa 1800. This piece depicts an assortment of fashionable figures, carefully cut from what were likely magazine illustrations, over a patterned foliate ground and a gold tone doily. The words ‘Circa 1800’ are painted in black to the center of the collage’s upper edge, and the piece is mounted in a wide wooden frame with a wire for hanging to its verso. There is illegible gold tone text present just above the hanging wire.

Condition

- discoloration to collaged elements; dust to surface; worn frame finish; minor tearing to surface; chipping to frame; heavy wear and splitting to verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; image measures: 11.25" W x 13.25" H.

Item #

18NYC002-076