File:Trying on for the Doll's Dressmaker.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionTrying on for the Doll's Dressmaker.jpg |
English: Jenny Wren's impressions of the appearance and fashions of society ladies |
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Source | http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/mstone/index.html (Pilip V. Allingham) |
Author | Marcus Stone |
Trying on for the Doll's Dressmaker Marcus Stone
Wood engraving by W. T. Green
14.5 cm high x 9.4 cm wide
Stone's illustration for Book 3,"A Long Lane," Chapter 2, "A Respected Friend in a New Aspect," reverts to the oddly sympathetic figure of the child-adult, the doll's dressmaker, Jenny Wren, who has great ladies unwittingly "try on" the dresses that she is making in the latest society fashion for her dolls. In other words, in a neat bit of class reversal, she exploits the rich and powerful as an extension of her art, using ladies of fashion for her models as the novelist uses people of his acquaintance as the raw material for his characterisations. As Jenny Wren explains to Riah just after they have crossed London Bridge and seen some of her wares in the window of a toy-shop. The picture relies for its effectiveness upon the sharp contrast between the observant child (centre) in the midst of an odd assortment of strangely disfigured people on the pavement (left rear) and the gorgeous dress which dominates the woodcut, contrasting the strangely distorted faces that form the chorus in the background, which, if the gas lamp is any indication, is the London street outside. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
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