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.