Editorial"I say to myself: would anybody imagine that we are coming from the Rue des Lombards?... We really don't look like confectioners at all," plate 2 from Coquetry. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1839. Dimensions: 262 ? 200 mm (image); 3...
EditorialShop girls dressing in the morning. Four shop girls dressing, fixing their hair in front of mirror, adjusting their stockings, playing with a cat. "These little workers show such ingenious coquetry. They wear ordinary negliges, but have the art to add ...
EditorialFabric shop workers. Women in muslin dresses, bonnets and shawls embroidering, sewing, cutting cloth and wrapping bolts of fabric. "If ever coquetry were lost by women, one would find it again at the ladies counter." Handcoloured engraving from Pierre ...