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Vivandieres: Part 3

  Guest post by Daniel Milford Cottam. Fortune after Hippolyte Lalaisse, Paris, c.1855. Hand-coloured lithograph. E.2869-1938   Whilst writing up the cantinière and vivandière blog posts, another three hand-coloured lithographs from the 1850s came to light. These images are particularly interesting, not only because their artist (Hippolyte Lalaisse) is identified, but because they...
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Vivandieres: Part 2

  Hand-coloured lithograph by an unknown artist. French, 1850-1870. E.2877-1938 Guest post by Daniel Milford Cottam, continued from Part 1... Writing from the point of view of a fashion historian, the clothes of the cantinières and vivandières fascinate me. While popular imagery shows eighteenth and early nineteenth century cantinières dressed in feminised versions of military uniform,...
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We are a group of cataloguers, photographers, curators and volunteers, nicknamed 'the Factory'. We are working through the stored collections of the Prints, Designs, Photographs, Paintings and Digital Art sections of the Word and Image department at the V&A, making sure that images and existing data about the items we hold are available to the public via Search the Collections.

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