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Carriage Dress

Fashion Plate
1824 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a park or garden and wearing a long-sleeved purple carriage dress trimmed with a deep border of white fur around the hem and a white fur collar, with matching covered buttons down the front of the dress and down the sides of the sleeves. She is also wearing a pink bonnet trimmed with white ostrich feathers over a ruffled white cap and secured at the neck with a gold-toned ribbon. She is holding a white fur muff and has a pocket watch on a gold chain looped around her neck and through the waistband of her dress.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCarriage Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Carriage Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving and etching, design by Miss Pierpoint, published in the Lady's Magazine, British, 1824
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a park or garden and wearing a long-sleeved purple carriage dress trimmed with a deep border of white fur around the hem and a white fur collar, with matching covered buttons down the front of the dress and down the sides of the sleeves. She is also wearing a pink bonnet trimmed with white ostrich feathers over a ruffled white cap and secured at the neck with a gold-toned ribbon. She is holding a white fur muff and has a pocket watch on a gold chain looped around her neck and through the waistband of her dress.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 20.4cm
  • Sheet width: 12.2cm
Collection
Accession number
E.3097-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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