Visual Reference Tools - 18th Century
- Eighteenth-Century European Dress
Costumes from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Heilbronn Timeline of Art History.
18th Century Fashion in Detail by Call Number: Art Library, GT 736 .N67 2018ISBN: 0500292639Publication Date: 2018This beautifully illustrated book reveals sharp pleats, high collars, gleaming pastes, colorful beads, elaborate buttons, and intricate lacework that make up some of the garments in the Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive fashion collection. With an authoritative text, exquisite color photography of garment details, and line drawings and photographs showing the complete construction of each piece, the reader has the unique opportunity to examine up close historical clothing that is often too fragile to be on display. It is an inspirational resource for students, collectors, designers, and anyone who is fascinated by fashion and costume.This new edition features an updated design, fresh content and new research, a comprehensive index, and an introduction that focuses on the makers and processes involved in producing 18th-century fashion.
Eighteenth-century French fashion plates in full color: 64 engravings from the "Galerie des modes," 1778-1787 by Call Number: Art Library GT860 .E34 1982Publication Date: 1982Published from 1778 to 1787, with elegant, accurate, hand colored plates, the original edition was reprinted between 1911 and 1914 in Paris. This reprint faithfully reproduces 64 plates from the Paris edition. (from the publisher)
Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715–1789 by Call Number: Art Library GT720 .R53 1984Publication Date: 1984
Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. by Call Number: Art Library GT 720.T35 2010ISBN: 9783791350622Publication Date: 2010This book studies the evolution of European dress through two centuries: aesthetic and technical development from the Age of Enlightenment to World War I.
Fashion in Detail: From the 17th and 18th Centuries by Call Number: Art Library, GT585. H37 1998ISBN: 084782151XPublication Date: 1998Details of high fashion from 1600 to 1800 from pieces in the Victoria & Albert museum.
A Visual HIstory of Costume: The Eighteenth Century by Call Number: Art Library, GT733.V57 1983 vol. 3ISBN: 0713440996Publication Date: 1983-A series of easy-to-use reference guides on the history of dress, each book covers one century. The central part of each book is a series of illustrations, arranged chronologically, taken from the time of the dress itself. These include oil paintings, photographs, engravings, woodcuts and line drawings from a wide range of sources and give an idea of what was worn and how. The clothes are described, explained and intepreted and captions describe what is worn on the head, body as well as any accessories. Vanda Foster was formerly the Senior Assistant Keeper of Costume and Textiles in the Museum of London.
Useful OBIS Subject Headings
Clothing and dress -- History -- 18th century
Clothing and dress -- France -- History -- 18th century
Clothing and dress -- [Country Name]-- History -- 18th century
Dress accessories -- France
Dress accessories -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Fashion -- History -- 18th century
Fashion -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Fashion -- [Country name] -- History -- 18th century
France -- Court and courtiers -- Clothing -- History -- 18th century
France -- Kings and rulers -- Clothing
Men's clothing -- History -- 18th century
Accessories
Bags by Call Number: Art Library NK4890. H34 W55 1999ISBN: 1851772863Publication Date: London : V&A, 1999Exploring changing styles and usage, this account features a wide range of bags from delicate draw-string and richly worked ecclesiastical purses, to large 18th-century work-bags and tiny reticules worn by slender-waisted Empire beauties.
- Pockets of History: Tie on pockets of the 1700 and 1800s
A collection of over three hundred tie-on pockets from the 1700 and 1800s, with details that reveal their construction, materials and decoration. Pockets were common but obscure objects, without great value and used by women of all social backgrounds so many dates and materials are provisional. Also included are textual and visual resources about the use and construction of pockets.
