Springtime brings thoughts of babies and motherhood, and thus we have yet another fashion plate featuring a young child. Unlike many earlier Ackermann fashion plates that include children, the toddler in this plate features so large as to almost obscure the details of the fashionable dress its mother is wearing. Strangely, mom is wearing gloves (of fashionable lemon) while interacting with her child! Baby has lost its little red shoe; can mother’s “small sprig of geranium placed in the hair on the left side” be far behind?
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- Plate 39, Vol. VII, no. xlii, page 368
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- Plate 40, Vol. VII, no. xlii, page 368
