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'Evening Costume', December 1825

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'Evening Costume', December 1825

published by J. Robins & Co, published in The Ladies' Pocket Magazine
hand-coloured etching, published 1 December 1825
5 1/4 in. x 2 7/8 in. (132 mm x 74 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47571

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Described in the magazine:
Dress of tulle over white satin, finished next the shoe with blond of a very rich and beautiful pattern; above which are four narrow tucks. Sleeves long, and rather wide, with white satin straps all the way up the arm. The hair arranged in the newest Parisian style; and the Apollo knot, which is very much elevated on the summit of the head, is divided by a narrow diadem bar of gold. Elegant necklace of small turquoise stones, set à l'antique, with an amulet depending above a row of pearls. The chaste simplicity of this becoming dress can never be sufficiently admired.

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Strikes, contract breaking and worker intimidation prompt the passing of a new Anti-Trade Union Combination Act to the dismay of economist John McCulloch, MP Joseph Hume and radical Francis Place who had worked for the repeal of the previous year.
Catholic Relief Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.

Art and science

Construction of Thames Tunnel begins under the direction of Marc Isambard Brunel.
Stockton to Darlington Railway, the world's first passenger system, opens.
William Hazlitt publishes The Spirit of the Age; twenty-five pen-portraits of his contemporaries in the world of literature, philosophy and politics.

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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres in London.
John Quincy Adams is elected President of the United States.

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