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Morning & Evening Dresses

Fashion Plate
August 1813 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing two women. The woman on the left is seated and is wearing a short-sleeved evening dress trimmed with pale green, with long white gloves, white shoes, two gold necklaces, and two small red flowers in her hair. The woman on the right is wearing a long-sleeved pale purple morning dress trimmed with white. She also has on a white shawl with a pale blue hat trimmed with pink flowers

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMorning & Evening Dresses
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured etching with engraving
Brief description
'Morning & Evening Dresses', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving and etching, drawn by G. M. Brighty and published in the Lady's Magazine, August 1813
Physical description
Fashion plate showing two women. The woman on the left is seated and is wearing a short-sleeved evening dress trimmed with pale green, with long white gloves, white shoes, two gold necklaces, and two small red flowers in her hair. The woman on the right is wearing a long-sleeved pale purple morning dress trimmed with white. She also has on a white shawl with a pale blue hat trimmed with pink flowers
Dimensions
  • Mount length: 23.2cm
  • Mount width: 30cm
No dimensions given in accessions entry.
Credit line
Given by Mr James Laver CBE
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.1024-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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