Lady's magazine selections
Selections from an American lady's magazine issued in Philadelphia around 1845, combining fiction, fashion reporting and parlour music for a middle-class female readership. Plates include hand-coloured fashion groups in bonnets and flounced skirts, stipple-engraved portraits of women, and engraved sheet-music pages with lyrics under the staves, useful for period costume reference, decorative notation and vignette portrait framing.
