The Lady's Magazine
(1770-1832), MagazineArtist associated with 36 portraits
The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex (London) was an early monthly periodical for women, which dominated the market for most of its run. It aimed to amuse and improve, providing fiction, poetry, music and social gossip as well as giving more space to fashion than its predecessors. Its first issue in August 1770 included as its frontispiece a plate titled 'A Lady in Full Dress in Augt. 1770', and it became the first magazine in any country to regularly issue plates showing contemporary fashions. The early engravings were uncoloured, until about 1790 when hand-coloured ones were included. In 1832 it merged with The Lady's Monthly Museum to become The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles Lettres, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, etc. From about 1785 its plates had been copied from those in French magazines such as Le Journal des Dames et des Modes and La Gallerie des Modes, but it now began importing them from Le Follet, becoming the first British magazine to use French plates instead of engraving its own. It continued to import them when it merged with The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée in 1837 to becomeThe Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine, and Museum of the Belles Lettres, music, fine arts, drama, fashions, &c. (1838-1847).
'A Lady in Full Dress in Augt. 1770'
published in The Lady's Magazine
etching, published August 1770
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Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
published for The Lady's Magazine
line engraving, published circa 1790-1820
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published for The Lady's Magazine
stipple engraving, published circa 1790-1820
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published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line-engraving, published March 1805
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by Henry Mutlow, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line-engraving, published January 1805
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by Henry Mutlow, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line-engraving, published February 1805
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'London Walking & full Dress', July 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published July 1805
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'London Walking & full Dress' by Mack and Bennet, November 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published November 1805
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'London Walking & full Dress', October 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published October 1805
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'London Morning & Evening Dresses', May 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published May 1805
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'London Fashionable Full Dress', August 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published August 1805
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'London Fashionable Mourning Dresses', September 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published September 1805
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'London fashionable full dress', June 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published June 1805
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'London fashionable Afternoon Dresses', April 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published April 1805
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'Fashionable walking & full Dress', November 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published November 1806
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'London fashionable Dresses', September 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published September 1806
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'London Fashionable Ball & full Dress', March 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published March 1806
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'London Fashionable full Dress', February 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published February 1806
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'Fashionable Riding & Full Dress', October 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published October 1806
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'London fashionable Dresses', July 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published July 1806
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'London Fashionable Evening Full Dress'
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published May 1807
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'London Fashionable Afternoon Dress'
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published June 1807
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'London Fashionable Walking and Full Dress', 1807
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published July 1807
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'Fashionable Afternoon & Morning Dress', 1807
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published January 1807
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'London Fashionable Evening & Full Dress', August 1809
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published August 1809
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'London Fashionable Walking & Full Dress', July 1809
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published July 1809
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'London Fashionable Full Dress', September 1809
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published September 1809
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'Dinner Party Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', March 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 April 1827
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'Evening Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', September 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 October 1827
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'Evening Party Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', August 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 September 1827
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'Evening Costume invented by Miss Pierpoint', May 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 June 1827
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'Home Costume invented by Miss Pierpoint', October 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 November 1827
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'Carriage Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', November 1827
by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 December 1827
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'Carriage Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', September 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 October 1827
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'Walking Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', July 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 August 1827
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'Evening Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', December 1827
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 January 1828
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