Toilettes de Longchamps, May 1841

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Toilettes de Longchamps, May 1841

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 1841
7 7/8 in. x 5 3/4 in. (201 mm x 145 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47878

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Described in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes, Court Magazine and Museum on 1 May:
Drawn capotte of straw colour crape with a wreath of violets encircling the crown and a border en rouleau round the edge of the front. A full bow of satin ribbon is placed low at the right side, just over the finishing of the bavolet. Dress of lilac poux de soie. Corsage low, and tight with revers figuring a pelerine. Long sleeves full at the upper part of the arm, and nearly tight from the elbow down, and finished by a poignet, the skirt of the dress very long and without trimming.
2nd figure. Drawn capotte of white crape with a bunch of roses placed low at one side, the remainder similar to that just described. Hair in ringlets intermixed with roses. Dress of poux de soie, low corsage. Sleeves full at top and light below. The skirt ornamented with a deep flounce, put on in sit plaits or gathers. Scarf of India muslin lined with blue sarsnet and trimmed all round with two rows of quilled ribbon, one at the edge, the other in side. Yellow gloves, black shoes, green parasol trimmed with narrow white lace.

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Current affairs

Sir Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister. Peel replaces the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne after a Conservative general election victory. The English comic periodical Punch is first published, under the auspices of engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew, and quickly establishes itself as a radical commentary on the arts, politics and current affairs, notable for its heavily satirised cartoons.

Art and science

Thomas Carlyle publishes his set of lectures On Heroes and Hero Worship, in which he attempts to connect past heroic figures to significant figures form the present.
William Henry Fox Talbot invents the calotype process, in which photographs were developed from negatives. This allowed for multiple copies of images to be made, and was the basis of modern, pre-digital, photographic processing.

International

Signing of the Straits Convention, an international agreement between Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia and Turkey, denying access to non-Ottoman warships through the seas connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, a major concession by Russia. Whilst signalling a spirit of co-operation, the convention emphasises the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

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