Les Fashionables by Philipon - Design on Front T-Shirt

The term "Les Fashionables" was a french term borrowed from the English to describe some of the dandier fashionable set in France around 1830. This marvellous caricature of a fashionable French family is based on a 19th Century Lithograph by Charles Philipon. Philipon was an illustrator and businessman and one of the founders of the newsletter La Silhouette from which this image comes. La Silhouette was the the first French newspaper to regularly publish prints and illustrations, giving them equal or greater importance than the written text. This shirt is also available with the design on the back.