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'Ball Dress', December 1827

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'Ball Dress', December 1827

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 December 1827
8 3/8 in. x 4 3/4 in. (214 mm x 121 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47605

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Described in the magazine:
Crepe lisse dress over a white satin slip; the sleeves are very short and full, and terminated with a wreath of china roses and deep vandykes, edged with a narrow ruche of tulle; Spanish bodice of rose-colour satin laced in front as a stomacher with silver cord, vandyked at the waist, and trimmed with silver lace; the skirt is decorated with a wreath of full-blown Provins roses, about half a yard above the rose-colour satin rouleau at the edge of the dress, which is supported by loops of rose-colour satin ribbon, having a knot in the centre, and attached to the wreath of roses by the upper loop; in each division is a star-embroidered in rose-colour floss silk; sash of the same colour, reaching from the right side across the front, where it is noué, and extending transversely to the left side, and fastened to the wreath of roses. The head-dress consists of a garland of red and white camellia Japonica, rising from between two large bows of hair at the top, and extending all round the head, and intermingling with the curls; ornamented gold comb behind. Necklace of gold and turquoise, with a diamond-shape locket in front; delicately wrought gold chain and eye-glass, and pendant gold ear-rings; medallion bracelets outside the white kid gloves, white satin shoes and [or?] sandals.

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Current affairs

Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister. George Canning succeeds him only to die after four months in office.

Art and science

University College London, the first metropolitan university in England, is founded specifically to educate dissenters excluded from Oxford and Cambridge. Whig politician Henry Brougham, writer Thomas Campbell and financier and philanthropist Isaac Goldsmid are its principal patrons.

International

Britain, France and Russia sign a treaty in London agreeing to intervene in the Greek War of Independence. Allied troops under General Edward Codrington subsequently destroy Turkish and Egyptian fleets at the Battle of Navarino.
Western Australia is explored for the first time by Captain Stirling.

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