'Costumes Parisiens', number 2517
2 of 32 portraits matching these criteria:
- subject matching 'Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Organdie; organdy; book muslin'
© National Portrait Gallery, London
'Costumes Parisiens', number 2517
published in Le Journal des Dames et des Modes
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, 1827
7 1/4 in. x 4 5/8 in. (183 mm x 117 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47604
Artistback to top
- Le Journal des Dames et des Modes (1797-1839), French magazine. Artist or producer associated with 12 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Described in the magazine:
Capote de gaze ornée d'avoine mure et de coquelicots. Robe de mousseline à pois: les volans bordés de liserés. Canezou d'organdi. Robe de mousseline unie. [Capote of gauze decorated with ripened oats and poppies. Dress of spotted muslin: the flounces with a border. Canezou of organdy. Dress of plain muslin.]
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Double portraits
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Parasols
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Gauze
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Muslin
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Organdie; organdy; book muslin
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Capotes
- Fashion Plates: Neckwear - Ruffs; collarettes
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Canezous
- Fashion Plates: Sleeves and cuffs - Gigot sleeves; leg-of-mutton sleeves
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Flowers
- From behind
- Hats and head attire
Events of 1827back to top
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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