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I've been reading "Portrait of an Era as Drawn by C.D. Gibson," a 1936 biography of the artist who created the Gibson Girl, an iconic figure of the 1890s and Gilded Age America. Would you like to know what she was called before she became "The Gibson Girl"? Apparently, around the office of Life (the magazine purchasing much of Gibson's work in 1890) if she had a name other than "the pretty girl CD Gibson draws" it was

PENELOPE PEACHBLOW

"Peachblow" being the pink-yellow ombre vase pictured above, a piece of Chinese porcelain which sold at auction for $18,000 in 1886 and caused a fad for similarly colored objects in both pottery and glass.

Biographer Fairfax Downey on the Gibson Girl's debut:

"She had been some time making her formal entrance into society, this debutante of 1890 who would claim a whole decade and more for her season. There had been several years of sub-debdom when she was undeveloped and a trifle awkward while the pen that launched her acquired finesse. Now a technique of fine lines, fastidious cross-hatching and subtle shading limned a tall, radiant being, her gaze clear, fearless and direct, her nose slightly and piquantly uptilted. Her lips fine-modelled and alluring. Her soft hair crowning a serene brow and caught up into a dainty chignon. The graceful column of her neck rising from the decolletage that barely concealed her delicately-rounded bosom. Her slim waist emphasized by the bodice cut of her gowns, gowns still with the vestige of a bustle and with full, smoothly-fluent skirts--such, in inadequate phrases, was the Gibson Girl in the year when she came out and swept into vast popularity."

"She was American womanhood idealized."

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