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Paris Evening Costume

Fashion Plate
February 1827 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a Parisian-style pale blue evening dress with a fitted bodice pleated horizontally across the bust, with a wide, open neckline trimmed with a narrow border of van-dyked white lace. There are short puffed under-sleeves beneath long white gauze over-sleeves, with blue trimmings at the heads and cuffs. The skirt is fuller at the back, and is trimmed with a deep flounce of elaborate rouleaux above the hem. She is also wearing white shoes, white gloves, gold drop earrings, and an elaborate blue and yellow headdress topped with a feather, and is holding a folded yellow fan.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleParis Evening Costume
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
'Paris Evening Costume'. Fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving, published by Joseph Robins, British, February 1827
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a Parisian-style pale blue evening dress with a fitted bodice pleated horizontally across the bust, with a wide, open neckline trimmed with a narrow border of van-dyked white lace. There are short puffed under-sleeves beneath long white gauze over-sleeves, with blue trimmings at the heads and cuffs. The skirt is fuller at the back, and is trimmed with a deep flounce of elaborate rouleaux above the hem. She is also wearing white shoes, white gloves, gold drop earrings, and an elaborate blue and yellow headdress topped with a feather, and is holding a folded yellow fan.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 15.1cm
  • Sheet width: 8.9cm
Collection
Accession number
E.1982-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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