'Fashionable walking & full Dress', November 1806

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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
7 7/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (201 mm x 114 mm) plate size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47523

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Described in the magazine in the November issue: (also illustrated in the December issue)
1. A short round dress of plain muslin, or cambric flounced, made close to the throat: a pelisse of puce colour or brown velvet, lined with jonquil Persian, trimmed round the bottom with black lace, and fastened together with small cords and tassels: a straw bonnet, with a short lace veil hanging over the face: nankeen shoes, or half-boots.
2. A dress of fawn-colour muslin or Italian net, with upper sleeves of the same, tied with white silk cord and tassels: under sleeves of white satin, trimmed with a narrow fine Mecklin lace: the back of the dress not so low as formerly, and laced up the middle with white cord; the bottom vandyked with white satin, and the front made to wrap over with a tucker of muslin, trimmed with lace to match the sleeves: a dress hat of white satin, ornamented with white feathers: a sash of white satin ribbon, with knotted ends. White kid gloves and shoes.

Events of 1806back to top

Current affairs

William Pitt dies in January and his lifelong opponent Charles James Fox dies in September. Pitt is succeeded by William Wyndham, Baron Grenville, who forms the 'Ministry of all the Talents' coalition .
Prince of Wales instigates the 'Delicate Investigation'; a Parliamentary enquiry into claims that his wife Caroline had an illegitimate child.

Art and science

John Constable embarks on a formative tour of the Lakes and makes landscape studies of the Langdale Pikes and Helvellyn.
Turner exhibits his Thames views to acclaim at his own London gallery.
Humphrey Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium by passing an electrical current through molten compounds.

International

Soprano Angelica Catalani arrives from Italy to make her London debut, amazing audiences with her showpiece arias.
Napoleon turns his forces east against Austria, Russia and Prussia and enjoys a wave of French victories.
British attack on Buenos Aires under General William Beresford fails.

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