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'Evening Dress', December 1828

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'Evening Dress', December 1828

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published 1 December 1828
8 1/2 in. x 4 3/8 in. (215 mm x 110 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47619

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Described in the magazine:
Orange-colour dress of Parisian gauze, with satin stripes of the same colour, and lozenge ornaments of red and green. The body is made low and en draperie, the fulness confined by a small corded band in the centre of the front and back; an orange-colour satin cape, sinuated towards the top, rises from the ceinture, and is terminated on the shoulder by a satin bow. The sleeves are short and full, with inside stiffenings to keep them in form. The skirt is without gores, and gathered in very full all round the waist, and is ornamented with pyramidal trimmings as high as the knee, cut bias, and made very full, edged with a piping of satin, and one of similar breadth down the centre, with a bouquet of roses at the summit of each pyramid: beneath is a satin rouleau. Orange-colour satin sash and a slip of the same colour is worn with the dress. The hair is parted in front and in ringlets, dressed very high, with plaited bands, and an ornamented comb at the top. White kid gloves, stamped at the elbow; hair-bracelets, with snaps of burnished and dead gold; gold tissue shoes.

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Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister.
Madhouse Act attempts to regulate asylums and ensure new arrivals are genuinely insane.
Repeal of the Test Acts removes political restrictions from dissenters, allowing them to hold public office.

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London Zoological Gardens open in Regent's Park. They provide both entertainment and a supply of exotic specimens for naturalists and anatomists such as Richard Owen who becomes a European authority on the subject.

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Daniel O'Connell is elected Member of Parliament for County Clare but as a Catholic is not permitted to take his seat.

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