Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate

by J. L. Nevinson

[27] Gustave Parthey, Kurzes Verzeichniss der Hollarschen Kupferstichen (1853), nos. 606-609.

[28] Gustave Parthey, Kurzes Verzeichniss der Hollarschen Kupferstichen (1853), nos. 1908-12, 1930-33.

[29] Parthey, ibid., nos. 1946-51.

[30] John Evelyn, Tyrannus or the Mode (1661). Facsimile reprint with introduction by J. L. Nevinson (Oxford: Luttrell Society, 1951), no. 11.

[31] E. S. de Beer, “King Charles II’s own fashion,” Warburg Institute Journal (1935), vol. 2, no. 2, p. 105.

[32] Translated, this reads: “. . . nothing is more pleasing than the styles born in France . . . . This is why much relating to dress is imported from France into all the provinces of the world, though the final dress is not exactly French.”

[33] Emile Magne, Images de Paris sous Louis XIV (1939). In this book, the social historian Dr. Magne devotes the best part of a chapter to the Mercure Galant and gives a listing of all fashion articles up to 1700.

[34] See J. L. Nevinson, “The ‘Mercury Gallant’ or European Fashions in the 1670’s,” Connoisseur (1955) vol. 136, p. 87.

[35] See F. G. Roe, “Prints and Tinsel,” Connoisseur (1932), vol. 89, p. 302.

[36] The Cryes of the City of London, Drawne after the Life, delineated by M. Lauron, engraved by P. Tempest (London: H. Overton, 1711).