1875 french fashion lithograph

hi folks

found this pretty fashion lithograph in a charity shop today for £4

the information i'm just quoting from the back, but not sure if thats correct

trying to figure out who the AS mark is

seems a better quality of paper than a magazine page but unsure

professionally framed

image is 11 1/4 by 8 3/4

no luck with image search or the with the initials

any thoughts or info appreciated

 

Taken from an edition of the Journal des Demoiselles?

 

could be mate, ill look into that a lot of the ones i'm seeing have added text to them. was hoping i wouldn't have too but might have to crack it open for more info

 

it is quite a nice quality actually this one, hellava good condition as well

 

I almost bought 2 Journal des Demoiselles prints (both indeed with the added title and mag name) a few weeks ago, but they were 15 EUR each, and the condition wasn't as good as yours, and I decided not to buy them.

 

will have a look inside tomoz and let you know

 

Very Gigi.

Debora

 

This type of print was popular in the '50s and '60s, sufficiently so that there were reproductions. The repros I have encountered were printed with with offset lithography, but your photos are good enough that the tell-tale dot matrix should be apparent and it is not (at least to me). Yours is probably fine. They are illustrations from fashion magazines, so not particularly hard to come by, but they do have a period charm. Magazines of the day put extra effort into their best illustrations. Color lithographs or steel plate engravings were sdded in on a heavier grade of paper because they required more vigorous printing processes than the rest of the publication.

 

great bit of info, thanks mos, yeah no dot matrix

 

luckily they were modern bending tabs at the back, so easy

looks like its been trimmed but some pencil info

not much value i would think, just as a decorative thing

 

Information about The Queen and Sandoz, if you haven't already found it. Given date, yours should be hand-colored. (British, not French, of course.)

https://fashion-era.com/fashion-history/the-queen-magazine

Debora

 

interesting read, thanks Deb, that explains the (large) size of the type i have.
great info on the entire magazine actually

 

A. Sandoz = Adolf Karol Sandoz

Not the same print, but ...
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31460771725
£ 5
And they have a few for sale around £9-10
And
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2291662633
24 handcolored fashion plates: £ 975.44

 

hooray a profit !!!!!

the added frame should bump it up a little bit though,

might be better of dumbing my knowledge on it down