Frontispiece from The Lady's Monthly Museum

Category

Library Item

Item no

33417

Title

Frontispiece from The Lady's Monthly Museum

Description

Decorative frontispiece from The Lady's Monthly Museum or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the Character of The British Fair. Produced by a society of ladies and published in London.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1799

Size

17.2 x 9.8 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Art and Design Library

This image is taken from The Lady's Monthly Museum, a volume which includes editions from July, August, September, October, November and December 1799.

As well as these coloured engravings from the 'Cabinet of Fashion' the magazines contain literature and theatre reviews, letters to the editor, poetry, articles on female historical figures such as Lady Jane Grey and Mary Queen of Scots and 'charades' (or poetic riddles).

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