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Fashionable Spring Walking Dresses
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Fashionable Spring Walking Dresses
- Object:
Fashion plate
- Place of origin:
London, England (printed)
- Date:
June 1808 (published)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
La Belle Assemblée (publisher) - Museum number:
E.2456-1888
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case GG, shelf 83, box B
Physical description
Engraving with hand-colouring, showing three women in white high-waisted dresses walking together. The woman in the foreground wears yellow gloves and shoes, and has a fob hanging from her waist, and is wearing a flat straw hat tied on with a yellow scarf with a face veil. She holds a blue parasol by its ferule with the cover at the top. To the left is a woman in a puce spencer jacket with military-style braid details and matching puce turban, carrying a green parasol or reticule. To the right is a woman wearing a pale blue short-sleeved coat with a wrap front and short, cutaway skirt over her white dress. She wears elbow length white gloves, a straw hat and a long yellow scarf.
Place of Origin
London, England (printed)
Date
June 1808 (published)
Artist/maker
Unknown (production)
La Belle Assemblée (publisher)
Descriptive line
La Belle Assemblée Fashionable Spring Dresses. June 1 1808. Engraving.
Techniques
Engraving; Hand-colouring
Categories
Prints; Fashion; Fashion plates
Collection code
PDP
