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Walking Dress

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

Fashion plate showing a woman leaning against an elaborate metal fence in a park or garden. She is wearing a white walking dress with a high open collar underneath a pale green hip-length mantle trimmed with embroidery and white fur. She is also wearing a gold hat with a white brim and white ostrich feather decoration, beige gloves, and grey shoes.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWalking Dress
Materials and techniques
Engraving and etching, coloured by hand
Brief description
'Walking Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving and etching, drawn by G. M. Brighty and engraved by 'Heath' for the Lady's Magazine, British, September 1813
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman leaning against an elaborate metal fence in a park or garden. She is wearing a white walking dress with a high open collar underneath a pale green hip-length mantle trimmed with embroidery and white fur. She is also wearing a gold hat with a white brim and white ostrich feather decoration, beige gloves, and grey shoes.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 18cm
  • Sheet width: 12.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
(Lettered with publishers' names, date and title)
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1955-1956 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection
Accession number
E.252-1955

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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