Mémoires d'une glace : album absolument inédit
A French illustrated album of 1894 published in Paris by H. Simonis Empis, with drawings by Albert Guillaume, a satirical humour artist of the period, presented as a series of scenes of a woman's private life reflected in a mirror. The pictures are pen and brown-wash drawings with captions set beneath each plate, showing interiors with delicate linework, soft grey tonal shading and fashionable Belle Epoque dress. A designer might take from them the economical use of hatched shadow to model fabric folds and the pairing of short witty captions with figure scenes in a limited palette.
