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Morning dress, summer 1837

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Morning dress, summer 1837

published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published circa August 1837
8 in. x 5 7/8 in. (202 mm x 150 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47724

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Also published in The Lady's Magazine and Museum, September 1837, with a description:
Négligé du Matin. This very pretty plate has been designed from one of the négligé morning dresses of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans; and we are persuaded that more than one of our fair subscribers will shortly appear in a similar dress. The material of which it is composed is batiste écrue (unbleached cambric), and its very light elegant trimming consists of a few rows of fine Italian straw plait (tresses de paille d'ltalie); see plate. The corsage and skirt of the négligé are cut all in one, except at the back, where one or two additional breadths are put in the skirt, and which would necessarily render the corsage too full at back. A plain and not very deep piece is put in at the top of the neck (see plate), to which the dress is attached in full gathers; on the shoulders it is confined by a shoulder-strap. The dress has double sleeves; the inner ones are plain and tight to the arm; the upper sleeve is à-la-Lucrèce Borgia, much in the style of the Venetian sleeve, and is taken up at the front of the arm with a small silk cord and tassel; the wrist of the inner sleeve is ornamented with a pointed cuff, buttoned at the top, and with three rows of straw trimming laid on; three rows of the same go down the front and round the bottom of the dress. In place of a pelerine is a small shawl of the material of the dress, with three rows of straw trimming all round, and a light silk fringe at the edge. The cordelière round the waist is likewise of silk. Drawn capote of cambric, the front not excessively large, and the crown precisely like that of an infant's bonnet (see plate). Hair brought low at the sides, and in ringlets. Black shoes, white kid gloves.
The capote on the table is of white tulle, and ornamented with a bouquet of hyacinths.

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Current affairs

The controversial monarch William IV dies of pneumonia in June leaving no legitimate heirs, and is succeeded to the throne by his niece Victoria, one month after her eighteenth birthday.
The Registration Act of Births, Marriages and Deaths makes it compulsory for all births, marriages and deaths to be registered at a Registry Office.

Art and science

Dickens's second novel Oliver Twist is serialised in Bentley's Magazine. The story of the orphan Oliver is an attack on the Poor Law Amendment Acts (1834), a highly contentious piece of legislation which abolished outdoor relief, effectively increasing entry in the workhouse. The novel, famously made into a musical in 1968, marks Dickens as an outspoken social critic as well as a highly popular and commercial writer.

International

The Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is killed in a duel with Baron Georges d'Anthès. Considered the founder of modern Russian literature, Pushkin blended Old Slavonic with vernacular Russian and was the first Russian writer to use everyday speech in his poetry. His works include Eugene Onegin.

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