The Schmitz-Horning Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1905 - 1960 Search this
Medium:
Chromolithograph on paper
Dimensions:
187 x 36 cm (73 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.)
Type:
Wallcoverings
Frieze
Object Name:
Frieze
Made in:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Date:
1947
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
This charming frieze doubles as an overview of women’s fashion from the period 1700-1900. It features nine women grouped into trios separated by a curvilinear motif of a flowering vine. On the far left, a woman in simple colonial dress stands next to a woman in mid-eighteenth-century and a woman in late-eighteenth-century garb. The next cluster shows women in 1810s, 1830s, and 1860s fashion, while the group on the right shows an elegant lady of the 1880s next to her companions from the 1890s and 1900s.