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Description: | Coloured engraving . A group of six fashionably-dressed women are here arranged with their backs to the viewer to showcase a spectacular display of bustles, trains and skirts in the latest styles.
The signature of the artist, Emile Préval, can be seen at the left of this composition. The engraver has also signed the plate to the right but this signature has yet to be deciphered.
This engraving was published in November 1870 as an illustration to the 19th-century fashion magazine ‘The Milliner and Dressmaker’. Text below the image tells us that the garments were created using the ‘Lock Stitch Silent Sewing Machine of Messrs Pollack Schmidt & Co., 210, Regent Street.’ The company of Pollack Schmidt & Co. was founded by Heinrich Pollack and Albert Edwin Schmidt in Hamburg. The company opened depots in Germany, America and the UK, including the branch on Regent Street, in central London. An 1870 advertisement for their Lock-Stitch Sewing Machine states: ‘From the introduction of this Machine into the British Market, the Silent Working principle has become established as indispensable in a Family Sewing Machine.’
Pollack Schmidt & Co. was later taken over and renamed the Hamburg-American Sewing Machine Company. | Subjects: | genre woman dressmaker milliner | Temporal: | 1870 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Emile Préval | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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