Terms and conditions of use
Scrap album fancy dress
(c. 1893)
Medium
silk, cotton, linen, paper, glue, metal (fastening), wood, leather, baleen, wax, paint
Measurements
(a) 29.3 cm (centre back) 24.5 cm (waist, flat) (bodice)
(b) 105.5 cm (centre back) 28.5 cm (waist, flat) (skirt)
(c) 81.4 × 66.4 × 3.4 cm (fan)
(d-e) 9.2 × 7.0 × 24.9 cm (each) (shoes)
(f) 11.5 × 61.5 cm (sash)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Schofield Collection. Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria, 1974
Gallery location
Level 1, NGV International
About this work
For fancy-dress or costume parties, guests designed their own sartorial creations or referred to fashion plates and publications that would then be made by ladies at home or by a professional dressmaker. The original wearer of this design is likely to have chosen her relatively demure theme and taken it to the court dressmaker, Madame Gough. This dress, featuring hundreds of decoupage paper cut-outs, would have been inspired by the popular Victorian pastime of compiling ‘scraps’ or ‘scrap’ albums.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
England
Inscription
(a) label, waistline, printed in gold ink on tape: MADAME GOUGH / COURT DRESSMAKER (in a scroll) / 78. NEW BOND STREET. W.
(d) embossed in sole: 0
(e) embossed in sole: 0
Accession Number
D181.a-f-1974
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
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