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'Morning Visiting Dress'

Fashion Plate
January 1825 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman standing on a terrace, leaning against a balustrade. She is wearing a long-sleeved pale brown morning dress with puffed trimmings down the front and around the hem, with a wide white falling collar, puffed sleeve-heads, and a waistband tied in a bow. She is also wearing beige gloves, red shoes, and a red and white feathered hat, and is holding a pale purple shawl trimmed with white and pink in one hand.

Object details

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Object type
Title'Morning Visiting Dress'
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Morning Visiting Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving with etched shading, engraved by W. Read and published by G. B. Whittaker for La Belle Assemblée, January 1825
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman standing on a terrace, leaning against a balustrade. She is wearing a long-sleeved pale brown morning dress with puffed trimmings down the front and around the hem, with a wide white falling collar, puffed sleeve-heads, and a waistband tied in a bow. She is also wearing beige gloves, red shoes, and a red and white feathered hat, and is holding a pale purple shawl trimmed with white and pink in one hand.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 21.7cm
  • Sheet width: 13.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
MORNING VISITING DRESS / Published by G. B. Whittaker for La Belle Assemblée No 1, new series, Jany. 1st, 1825
Collection
Accession number
E.1818-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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