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Walking Dress

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

Fashion plate showing a woman looking over her shoulder towards the viewer. She is walking in a formal park or garden, and wearing a long-sleeved white walking dress trimmed with pale green floral motifs, vandyking, and three flounces at the hem. She is also wearing a white lace and blue ribbon-trimmed bonnet decorated with a sprig of blue and white flowers, and is carrying a pale green shawl with pink and yellow patterns, and holding a closed pale blue parasol.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWalking Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving with etched lines
Brief description
'Walking Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving, design by Mrs Bell, published in La Belle Assemblee No. 111, July 1818
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman looking over her shoulder towards the viewer. She is walking in a formal park or garden, and wearing a long-sleeved white walking dress trimmed with pale green floral motifs, vandyking, and three flounces at the hem. She is also wearing a white lace and blue ribbon-trimmed bonnet decorated with a sprig of blue and white flowers, and is carrying a pale green shawl with pink and yellow patterns, and holding a closed pale blue parasol.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 20.8cm
  • Sheet width: 12.4cm
Collection
Accession number
E.2577-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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