'London Fashionable Walking and Full Dress', 1807
23 of 36 portraits by The Lady's Magazine
© National Portrait Gallery, London
'London Fashionable Walking and Full Dress', 1807
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published July 1807
7 7/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (201 mm x 114 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47528
Artistback to top
- The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832), Magazine. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Described in the magazine:
1. A Dress of pale pink muslin or crape, over a white sarsnet slip; the sleeves of the slip laid in small plaits, and trimmed with lace; and the sleeves of the dress fastened with silver and pearl ornaments. Head-dress, a bandeau of white crape, ornamented with a gold tiara set with rubies. Necklace and armlets to correspond. White gloves and shoes.
2. A plain muslin dress, Vandycked round the bottom; a short Spanish cloak of lilac satin, made to fit the back, and full on the shoulders, trimmed all round with a very rich Vandyked lace; bonnet of the same, crown intermixed with lace and trimmed to match. Limerick gloves and shoes.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Chairs and thrones
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Gloves - Limerick gloves
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Full dress
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Promenade dress; walking dress; Modes de Longchamps; toilette de ville
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Round gowns; round dresses
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Slips
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Crape; Crêpe
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Muslin
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Sarsnet; sarcenet
- Fashion Plates: Hair - Classical Roman hairstyles
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Bandeaux
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Capotes
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Coronets; diadems; tiaras
- Fashion Plates: Influences - Classical influence
- Fashion Plates: Influences - Spanish influence
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Spanish cloaks
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Lace
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Vandyking
- From behind
- Jewellery - Pearls
- Jewellery - Precious stones
- Reading
Events of 1807back to top
Current affairs
Act is passed abolishing the British slave trade after vigorous campaigning by hundreds of thousands of people led by Thomas Clarkson and championed in parliament by reformer William Wilberforce.Resignation of 'Ministry of all the Talents'. Whig politician William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland, succeeds as Prime Minister.
Art and science
Thomas Hope publishes Household Furniture and Interior Decoration; influential in promoting Greek and especially Egyptian models as the epitome of fashionable style.International
French invasion of Spain and Portugal.Britain occupies Copenhagen and captures the Danish fleet.
Napoleon begins to wage an economic battle against Britain, recognising the impossibility of victory at sea because of Britain's superior naval power. He aims to close the entire European coastline to British trade.
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