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'London Fashionable Mourning Dresses', September 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
7 7/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (201 mm x 114 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47529

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Mourning fashions in observance of the death of Prince William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, brother of King George III, who had died on 25 August.
Described in the magazine: London Walking and Full Dresses.
1. Plain chemise dress of Italian gauze; full front, fastened in the centre with a jet brooch, over a black sarcenet slip; sleeves and front trimmed with black net trimming, fastened with bugles. Leather gloves, and black jean shoes.
2. Dress of imperial lustre; short sleeves. Gloves and shoes the same as first figure.

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Current affairs

Nelson's state funeral is held at St Paul's. An occasion for an outpouring of national grief and patriotism, the grand ceremony built on the cult of Nelson which had emerged in the years before his death.

Art and science

Mary Tighe publishes Pysche or the Legend of Love, a romantic allegory in the fashionable medieval revival style, admired by both Keats and Shelley.
The 'poems of Ossian' are officially declared a fake and a great literary scandal ends as Scottish poet James Macpherson is exposed as the forger of the third century bard's epic works.

International

Battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon's ultimate plan to invade England from Boulogne with 100,000 men is thwarted by superior British naval power. Nelson dies in the closing moments of battle having been wounded by a French sniper, but survives long enough to learn that a decisive victory has been won.

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