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Dinner Party Dress

Fashion Plate
July 1823 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a pale blue high-waisted dress with horizontal trimmings across the skirt, short puffed sleeves with long white van-dyked undersleeves, van-dyked trimming around the square neckline, and a matching blue and white turban-style hat ornamented with white feathers. She also has a dark red shawl draped over her arms, and a small folded fan in her gloved hands.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDinner Party Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Dinner Party Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving with etched shading, engraved by W. Read and published in La Belle Assemblee, Great Britain, July 1823
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a pale blue high-waisted dress with horizontal trimmings across the skirt, short puffed sleeves with long white van-dyked undersleeves, van-dyked trimming around the square neckline, and a matching blue and white turban-style hat ornamented with white feathers. She also has a dark red shawl draped over her arms, and a small folded fan in her gloved hands.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 21.3cm
  • Sheet width: 12.5cm
Collection
Accession number
E.1965-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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