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Fashionable Evening & Opera Dresses for May 1825

Fashion Plate
May 1825 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing two women. The woman on the left is sitting on an ornate stool and is wearing a white evening dress with short puffed sleeves and a high waistline. The dress has swagged white trimmings around the skirt that are ornamented with pink flowers. She is also wearing long white gloves, white shoes, is holding a white folding fan, and has pink flowers in her hair. The woman on the right is standing and is wearing a pale blue dress trimmed at the hem with white van dyking, and long white gloves. Over the dress, she is wearing a purple floral patterned opera cloak with a large standing collar, tied at the neck with a bow, lined in yellow and trimmed all around with white van-dyking.

Object details

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Object type
TitleFashionable Evening & Opera Dresses for May 1825
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Fashionable Evening & Opera Dresses for May 1825', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving with etched shading, designs by Miss Pierpoint, published by Dean & Munday, London, May 1825
Physical description
Fashion plate showing two women. The woman on the left is sitting on an ornate stool and is wearing a white evening dress with short puffed sleeves and a high waistline. The dress has swagged white trimmings around the skirt that are ornamented with pink flowers. She is also wearing long white gloves, white shoes, is holding a white folding fan, and has pink flowers in her hair. The woman on the right is standing and is wearing a pale blue dress trimmed at the hem with white van dyking, and long white gloves. Over the dress, she is wearing a purple floral patterned opera cloak with a large standing collar, tied at the neck with a bow, lined in yellow and trimmed all around with white van-dyking.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 18.1cm
  • Sheet width: 10.9cm
Collection
Accession number
E.2086-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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