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Full Dress

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

Fashion plate showing a woman standing with one arm resting on an ornate pedestal, and holding a white shawl in her other hand. She is wearing a long-sleeved pale pink dress trimmed with narrow white ruffles, gold jewellery, white gloves, pink shoes, and a pink floral headpiece.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFull Dress
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured etching and engraving
Brief description
'Full Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured etching, from Ackermann's Repository of Arts, May 1811
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman standing with one arm resting on an ornate pedestal, and holding a white shawl in her other hand. She is wearing a long-sleeved pale pink dress trimmed with narrow white ruffles, gold jewellery, white gloves, pink shoes, and a pink floral headpiece.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 23.8cm
  • Sheet width: 14.7cm
Credit line
Given by Mrs A. L. Hudswell
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1938. London: The Board of Education, 1939.
Collection
Accession number
E.2999-1938

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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