Walking Dress

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Artist/Maker	R Ackermann's Repository (publishers)
Place of origin	London (published)

Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a blue walking dress with white trimmings, a white ruff-style collar, white gloves, blue shoes, and a blue and white ostrich feather-trimmed bonnet. She is carrying a red, yellow and blue shawl and a white and yellow handkerchief

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Categories	Prints Fashion Plates Clothing
Object type	Fashion plate
Title	Walking Dress (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Hand-coloured engraving with etched shading Paper (Fiber Product) Printing Ink Watercolour (Paint) Hand-Colouring Etching Engraving (Printing Process)
Brief description	'Walking Dress'. Fashion plate, from no.84 of 'R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts'. Hand-coloured engraving, Britain, 1815.
Physical description	Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a blue walking dress with white trimmings, a white ruff-style collar, white gloves, blue shoes, and a blue and white ostrich feather-trimmed bonnet. She is carrying a red, yellow and blue shawl and a white and yellow handkerchief
Dimensions	Height: 24.3cm Width: 16.1cm Measured by SH 25/07/2010.
Style	Regency
Copy number	Pl. 34
Marks and inscriptions	'Walking Dress. No. 84 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. Decr. 1 1815. at 101. Strand London. Plate 34 Vol. XIV.' (Lettered)
Credit line	Given by Mr James Laver CBE
Subjects depicted	Women Dresses Clothing
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1028-1959

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568209/walking-dress-fashion-plate-r-ackermanns-repository/

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