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London fashionable full Dress

Fashion Plate
September 1812 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a pale yellow and white evening dress with short puffed sleeves, lace cuffs, a square neckline, and puffed trimmings. She has a pale blue tasselled shawl over her arms, long white gloves, a jewelled necklace, and a gold and blue tiara-style headpiece with a hairnet. She is examining a straw bonnet trimmed with blue flowers in one hand, and next to her is a hat stand with two straw hats and one white cap

Object details

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Object type
TitleLondon fashionable full Dress
Materials and techniques
Engraving with etching, coloured by hand
Brief description
'London fashionable full Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving, from the Lady's Magazine, September 1812.
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a pale yellow and white evening dress with short puffed sleeves, lace cuffs, a square neckline, and puffed trimmings. She has a pale blue tasselled shawl over her arms, long white gloves, a jewelled necklace, and a gold and blue tiara-style headpiece with a hairnet. She is examining a straw bonnet trimmed with blue flowers in one hand, and next to her is a hat stand with two straw hats and one white cap
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.7cm
  • Width: 12.7cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style
Credit line
Given by Mr. H. Cawthra
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964
Collection
Accession number
E.21059-1957

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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