Description:
Poster-sized fashion plate with hand-colored Images of tailored garments including men's coats and trousers, and women's riding habits and a view is from Staten Island with the New York Battery and Bay in the background, which is titled "American Fashions Spring and Summer 1853 by Genio C. Scott / No. 130 Broadway, New York" over "Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1853 by Genio C. Scott." Born in Livonia, NY, Genio Columbus Scott (1806-1879) was teaching school by the age of 15 in central NY state, and was listed as a tailor in 1832-1833 in Montgomery County, NY. About 1835, Scott moved to NYC where he was listed as a tailor in in the New York City directories in 1842-1843 and was listed as a "Reporter of Fashion" from 1844-1855. Around 1835, Scott published "Scott’s Report of Fashions" and "The Mirror of Fashion" in 1839, which simutaneously functioned as a trade journal overseeing the mass-production of tailored suits and as a fashion connoiseur of tasteful consumption and led to his career in the fashion periodical business in New York City. He also published the "Monitor of Fashion" from 1853-1854 using plates designed and produced by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix (1813-1880) and Jules David (1808-1892) of Paris, which also appeared in "Parisienne" and the "Moniteur de la Mode." His true love was fly fishing, and he wrote the classic, "Fishing in American Waters" (1869), illustrating it with 170 of his own pencil sketches. A portrait of Scott painted by the artist Eastman Johnson in 1859 is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
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