The last card shows names of colours printed in incongruously coloured ink and participants are instructed to name the colour of the ink in the printed words.
Otherwise the textures, colours, prints and shapes varied wildly – things loose-fit, bodycon, short and long.
"There are lots of earthy colours, prints and long pin-tucked bodices", says Rosemary Harden, principal curator at the museum.
The Stroop task is a well-established psychological test that presents subjects with the names of colours printed in ink that does not match the colour named.
In the 1830s George Baxter repopularised colour relief printing, known as chromoxylography, by using a "background detail plate printed in aquatint intaglio, followed by colours printed in oil inks from relief plates usually wood blocks".
The first card shows names of colours, printed in black, which have to be read out loud.
He also invented the two-colour print and generally standardized colour printing.
More importantly, the work is a full-colour print.
They are more expensive than traditional colour print materials but considerably easier to process.
Technicolor, (trademark), motion-picture process using dye-transfer techniques to produce a colour print.
