Background:

These prints are from La Mode Illustrée, one of the best known French fashion magazines published in the second half of the 1800s.  Distributed on a weekly basis, each issue featured a description of Victorian fashions and related accessories.  The prints are hand-colored and were inserted in the magazine along with the text pages describing the fashions.

Please note that our scanner is not large enough to scan the full dimensions of each print.  While the image of a print may look truncated, in actuality all prints are fully intact.