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Walking Costume

Fashion Plate
1824 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a landscape wearing a long-sleeved pale purple walking dress trimmed with frills around the neckline and sleeveheads, and with shaped trimmings around the hem. She is also wearing a pale blue bonnet trimmed with feathers and pink flowers over a white cap. She is holding a piece of paper in one gloved hand, and a monocle that hangs around her neck in the other

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWalking Costume
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
'Walking Costume', fashion plate, hand coloured engraving, design by Miss Pierpoint, published in the Lady's Magazine, British, 1824
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman standing in a landscape wearing a long-sleeved pale purple walking dress trimmed with frills around the neckline and sleeveheads, and with shaped trimmings around the hem. She is also wearing a pale blue bonnet trimmed with feathers and pink flowers over a white cap. She is holding a piece of paper in one gloved hand, and a monocle that hangs around her neck in the other
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 20.1cm
  • Sheet width: 11.7cm
Collection
Accession number
E.1944-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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