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Evening Dress

Fashion Plate
October 1811 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a seated woman wearing a long-sleeved blue evening dress with a white collar and cuffs. She is also wearing white shoes, gloves, and a headdress, with a sheer shawl and a gold necklace with a red cross pendant.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleEvening Dress (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving and etching
Brief description
'Evening Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving and etching, engraved by William Hopwood and published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, London, October 1811
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a seated woman wearing a long-sleeved blue evening dress with a white collar and cuffs. She is also wearing white shoes, gloves, and a headdress, with a sheer shawl and a gold necklace with a red cross pendant.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.75in
  • Width: 6in
Credit line
Given by Mrs. A. L. Hudswell
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1938, London: Board of Education, 1939.
Collection
Accession number
E.3010-1938

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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