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Walking Dress

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

Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a grey walking dress with a white ruff-style collar and a matching grey hat, with an alternative pink hat suggested to the right. She is also wearing white gloves, holding a white handkerchief, and is standing in front of a neo-classical style pedestal surmounted by an urn

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWalking Dress
Materials and techniques
hand coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Walking Dress', fashion plate, design by Miss Pierpoint, drawn and etched by William Hopwood and engraved for Lady's Magazine, British, 1827
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a grey walking dress with a white ruff-style collar and a matching grey hat, with an alternative pink hat suggested to the right. She is also wearing white gloves, holding a white handkerchief, and is standing in front of a neo-classical style pedestal surmounted by an urn
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 19.9cm
  • Sheet width: 11.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Walking Dress
  • Invented by Miss Pierpoint, & engraved for the Lady's Magazine. No. 1. 1827
Collection
Accession number
E.1798-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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