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Evening Dress

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

Fashion plate showing a woman in dismay, having just knocked a vase or an urn from a side table and broken it. She is wearing a pale yellow short-sleeved evening dress trimmed with medallions around the hem, neckline, and sleeves, with long white gloves and a sheer white shawl. She also has a large yellow feather in her hair, and a colourful necklace around her neck.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleEvening Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving with etched shading
Brief description
'Evening Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving with etched shading, published in No. 15 of R. Ackermann's Repository, British, March 1824
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman in dismay, having just knocked a vase or an urn from a side table and broken it. She is wearing a pale yellow short-sleeved evening dress trimmed with medallions around the hem, neckline, and sleeves, with long white gloves and a sheer white shawl. She also has a large yellow feather in her hair, and a colourful necklace around her neck.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 21.8cm
  • Sheet width: 14cm
Collection
Accession number
E.2170-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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