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Walking Dress

Fashion Plate
February 1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a winter landscape with a cottage behind her. She is wearing a long-sleeved purple walking dress with a gold chain, white lace collar, white ruffled cap, and a black bonnet decorated with a large black ostrich feather and a black lace veil, which she is holding away from her face with a gloved hand.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWalking Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Walking Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving with etched shading, engraved by W. Read and published by G. B. Whittaker in La Belle Assemblee, Great Britain, February 1825
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a winter landscape with a cottage behind her. She is wearing a long-sleeved purple walking dress with a gold chain, white lace collar, white ruffled cap, and a black bonnet decorated with a large black ostrich feather and a black lace veil, which she is holding away from her face with a gloved hand.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 21cm
  • Sheet width: 13.1cm
Collection
Accession number
E.1968-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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