'London Fashionable full Dress', February 1806
18 of 36 portraits by The Lady's Magazine
© National Portrait Gallery, London
'London Fashionable full Dress', February 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published February 1806
7 7/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (201 mm x 114 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47531
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: Walking and Full Dress.
Fig 1 [on the right] The head dressed with a broad band of silver net and lace: veil fastened over the back part of the head: dress of coloured muslin, trimmed round the bosom and sleeves with swansdown: long silk gloves, and white kid shoes.
Fig 2 [on the left] Hat of slate-coloured velvet, turned up in front, and trimmed with white ermine or swansdown, and white ostrich feather. Pilgrim cloak trimmed with the same, to match: black velvet boots, edged likewise with swansdown.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Double portraits
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Gloves - Silk 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: Fabrics - Muslin
- Fashion Plates: Footwear - Kid shoes
- Fashion Plates: Hair - Classical Roman hairstyles
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Fabric hats
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Half turbans
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Ostrich feathers
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Veils
- Fashion Plates: Influences - Classical influence
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Pilgrim cloaks
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Ermine
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Swansdown
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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