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'Fashionable Afternoon & Morning Dress', 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
7 7/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (201 mm x 114 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47534

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Described in the magazine:
1. [on right] Fashionable Afternoon and Dancing Dress. - A short round dress of yellow muslin or crape over a white sarsnet petticoat; the dress trimmed round the bottom with a broad lace, and made much shorter than the petticoat; the bodies full, and trimmed with a coloured trimming, which crosses in the front, and is made to correspond in the back; sleeves laid in crossways over white sarsnet. Head-dress, a half turban of coloured velvet, ornamented with small pearl beads, the hair seen at the back. White shoes and gloves.
2. [on left] A dress of white sarsnet or satin with a long train; sleeves made rather full, and trimmed with a rich lace; body quite plain; lace tucker and gloves; cap of lace intermixed with fawn-coloured velvet or satin, and trimmed with ribbon to match; white cornelian or pearl necklace.

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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