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Dinner Dress

Fashion Plate
1837 (published)
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a white dress trimmed with pink flowers. The dress has a straight off-shoulder neckline, pleated fitted bodice, and half-length sleeves trimmed with a frill at the cuff. The skirt is full and is trimmed with pink flowers between two vertical pale pink ruffles. She is also wearing white gloves and shoes, is holding a white folding fan, and has pink flowers in her hair

Object details

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Object type
TitleDinner Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving with etching
Brief description
'Dinner Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving with etching, British, 1837
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a white dress trimmed with pink flowers. The dress has a straight off-shoulder neckline, pleated fitted bodice, and half-length sleeves trimmed with a frill at the cuff. The skirt is full and is trimmed with pink flowers between two vertical pale pink ruffles. She is also wearing white gloves and shoes, is holding a white folding fan, and has pink flowers in her hair
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 15.8cm
  • Sheet width: 9.3cm
Credit line
Given by Mrs Willoughby Hodgson
Collection
Accession number
E.2715-1931

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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