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Dinner Dress

Fashion Plate
August 1818 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman seated on a low pale purple settee wearing a long white evening dress with a dark blue bodice, short sleeves trimmed with dark blue, and dark blue embroidery around the bottom of the skirt, which has a scalloped hem. She is also wearing white shoes, long white gloves, a white lace scarf, and a white bonnet trimmed with dark blue and decorated with pink floral sprays

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDinner Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
'Dinner Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving, published by J. Robins & Co., London, for the New British Lady's Magazine, August 1818
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman seated on a low pale purple settee wearing a long white evening dress with a dark blue bodice, short sleeves trimmed with dark blue, and dark blue embroidery around the bottom of the skirt, which has a scalloped hem. She is also wearing white shoes, long white gloves, a white lace scarf, and a white bonnet trimmed with dark blue and decorated with pink floral sprays
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 19cm
  • Sheet width: 11cm
Collection
Accession number
E.2747-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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