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Walking Dress

Fashion Plate
December 1826 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a formal park or garden wearing a purple pelisse trimmed with white fur around the skirt and cuffs, with a white ruff-style collar, a yellow and black bonnet lined with peach and tied with a blue, pink, and white ribbon, and holding a white fur muff lined with blue.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWalking Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving with etched shading
Brief description
'Walking Dress'. Fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving with etched shading, engraved by W. Read and published by G. B. Whittaker for La Belle Assemblee, December 1826
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a formal park or garden wearing a purple pelisse trimmed with white fur around the skirt and cuffs, with a white ruff-style collar, a yellow and black bonnet lined with peach and tied with a blue, pink, and white ribbon, and holding a white fur muff lined with blue.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 21.5cm
  • Sheet width: 13.2cm
Collection
Accession number
E.3109-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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