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'Fashionable Riding & Full Dress', October 1806

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'Fashionable Riding & Full Dress', October 1806

published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published October 1806
8 1/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (206 mm x 114 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47539

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Described in the magazine:
1. A dress of fine spotted India muslin: the bosom and sleeves trimmed with rich French lace, and intermixed with a plaiting of white satin: cap of worked leno, lined with white satin, terminating on the side with a long drapery, and ornamented with a small wreath of artificial flowers rather on one side. - Necklace and brooches of cornelian, or gold. - White kid gloves and shoes.
2. A cinnamon brown riding-habit of very fine cloth; the sleeves made large, and the collar high behind: a cambric shirt richly worked, and tied round the neck with a silk handkerchief, or muslin cravat: large, plain, flat beaver hat, to match the habit: nankeen half-boots, and York tan gloves.

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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