'Walking dresses - Modes de Long Champs', May 1840
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- subject matching 'Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Gros des Indes'
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'Walking dresses - Modes de Long Champs', May 1840
published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published May 1840
8 1/4 in. x 5 7/8 in. (208 mm x 150 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47861
Artistsback to top
- The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum (1837-1847), Magazine. Artist or producer associated with 103 portraits.
- Dobbs & Co (active circa 1826-1840), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 94 portraits.
- Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes (1829-1892), French magazine. Artist or producer associated with 89 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Described in the magazine:
Standing Figure - Dress of grey striped silk. Corsage, three quarters high sloped en coeur, and tight to the bust, with small pelerine of the same, pointed at the waist in front. Sleeves brought very low on the shoulder, with three bouillons of satin, the colour of the dress, and a tuck of the material itself; the remainder full to the wrist, when they are fastened by the narrowest wristband possible, and finished by a deep ruffle of the silk of the dress, which falls over the hand; down each side of the front is a bouillon trimming of satin, ending a little above the bottom of the dress, in the form of the lower part of an S, and finished by four coques of satin, and two pointed ends. This trimming gives the front of the dress an appearance of what is called the “Tablier.” The capotte is of Gros d'Inde, colour mais; the crown sits so flat, that it has the appearance of being cut all in one with the front, a puffing of gauze crosses the bonnet instead of a ribbon, and a branch of lilac droops low at one side. Two frills of lace are worn instead of a collar; white kid gloves; brooch.
Sitting Figure. - Dress of soie glacé. Corsage half high, and with a slight point. Sleeves full, with three bouillons at top. Hat of white poux de soie, with lilac (mixed white and lilac), at one side, and underneath the front. Gold feronnière; hair neck-chain; lace frill; brooch; cambric ruffles; white kid gloves; mauve parasol. Hair in bands.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Gloves - Kid gloves
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Jewellery - Hairwork; hair jewellery
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Parasols
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Promenade dress; walking dress; Modes de Longchamps; toilette de ville
- Fashion Plates: Bodices - Bodices en coeur
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Gros des Indes
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Poux-de-soie; poult-de-soie
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Silk
- Fashion Plates: Hair - Bands
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Capotes
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Ferronières
- Fashion Plates: Influences - French fashions
- Fashion Plates: Neckwear - Pelerines; fichu-pelerines; pelerine capes; pelerine tippets; pelerine collerettes
- Fashion Plates: Sleeves and cuffs - Bishop sleeves; sleeves à l'evèque
- Fashion Plates: Sleeves and cuffs - Bouillons
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Bouillons; puffings
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - En tablier
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Flowers
- Fashion Plates: Undergarments - Chemisettes; habit-shirts
Events of 1840back to top
Current affairs
Victoria marries her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; he is given the title of Prince Consort.The Penny Black stamp is introduced by Rowland Hill; the first pre-paid, self-adhesive stamp, it marks the start of the modern postal system.
The start of the Irish potato famine, which by the time of its peak in 1851, had caused the deaths of one million, and contributed to the sharp rise of emigration from Ireland to England and America.
Art and science
Beau Brummel, the fashion leader responsible for sparking the culture of 'Dandyism', dies of syphilis.The first stone is laid on the new Houses of Parliament, based on the gothic designs by the architects Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. The old buildings had burned down in 1834, following a blaze caused by burning wooden tallies used by the Exchequer to calculate tax.
International
The Afghans surrender to Britain during the Afghan-British war (1839-42). The war was sparked by British fear over Russian influence in Afghanistan, with the British East India Company resolving to depose the Afghan leader, Dost Muhammad, who was insistent on Afghan independence, and restore the former leader Shoja Shah.The Maoris yield sovereignty of New Zealand under the Treaty of Waitangi.
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