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Fashionable Morning & Evening Dresses for April 1820

Fashion Plate
April 1820 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing two women. The woman on the left is standing and wearing a light blue-grey morning dress with a flounce around the hem, long sleeves with puffed shoulders, and a standing white ruff-style collar. She is also wearing a bonnet trimmed with blue feathers, and holding a purple reticule. The woman on the right is seating and writing in a book. She is wearing an evening dress in the same colour as the walking dress, with ruffled bands and stripes around the hem, short puffed sleeves, and a ruffled collar with long white gloves and a floral headpiece.

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TitleFashionable Morning & Evening Dresses for April 1820
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Fashionable Morning & Evening Dresses for April 1820', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving and etching, designs by Miss Pierpoint, published by Dean & Munday, London, April 1820
Physical description
Fashion plate showing two women. The woman on the left is standing and wearing a light blue-grey morning dress with a flounce around the hem, long sleeves with puffed shoulders, and a standing white ruff-style collar. She is also wearing a bonnet trimmed with blue feathers, and holding a purple reticule. The woman on the right is seating and writing in a book. She is wearing an evening dress in the same colour as the walking dress, with ruffled bands and stripes around the hem, short puffed sleeves, and a ruffled collar with long white gloves and a floral headpiece.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 16.8cm
  • Sheet width: 10.4cm
Collection
Accession number
E.2082-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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