'Instructive types' or mere 'fancies': assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 663 - 694
• Main Author: Avidon, Marlo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 03.07.2024; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: 17th century; early modern dress; Fashion; fashion history; fashion prints; Libraries; Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703); Samuel Pepys; seventeenth century; United Kingdom > UK; England

Within the library of the famed diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) at Magdalene College, Cambridge sits one of the largest surviving bound collections of seventeenth-century French fashion prints. Containing nearly one hundred illustrations of named and anonymous figures spanning from 1670 though the...