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Objekt 4

Dress-up dolls

Description

Subscribers to the Parisian fashion magazine "La toilette de Psyché, journal des modes" received a paper doll every three months and a new paper dress every week. Playing with it served to educate elegance - girls were to learn the importance of an appropriate wardrobe through play.

Object description

Paris, around 1835

Etchings, colored

Inv. 1968.153. Gift J.-B. Goppelsröder-Sarasin, Basel.

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