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Dinner and evening dresses, September 1841

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Dinner and evening dresses, September 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 September 1841
8 1/4 in. x 5 7/8 in. (210 mm x 148 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47881

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Described in the magazine:
1st Figure - Dress of embroidered tarlatane. The corsage is tight to the bust, with one seam in front. The sleeves are short and tight, and have two falls of lace put on nearly plain. The skirt is ornamented with two flounces, richly embroidered; the lower one, which is remarkably deep, reaches to the edge of the dress, whilst the upper one, which is very narrow, forms a kind of heading to the other. The Berthe is of a most becoming and novel form, and is edged all round with narrow lace. The coiffure consists of a half cap of blonde, trimmed with pink ribbons and flowers. It is worn far back, but comes low at the sides of the face. It is without brides or strings to tie. The hair is en bandeaux lisses, and the back dressed very low. White kid gloves, black satin shoes, bouquet.
2nd Figure - Half cap, trimmed with blue ribbons and flowers, having lappets at the sides that fall over the shoulders. The dress is of India muslin; the skirt ornamented with six tucks, edged with narrow lace, and placed each, two together, and the dress embroidered between. The sleeves are very short, and are finished with a narrow lace canezou of India muslin. The form is very simple. It comes to a point at the waist, both at front and back, and has a round falling collar and lappels in front. It is trimmed all round with a small plaited frill, edged with a narrow lace, and is fastened at the neck with a small cord and tassels. The scarf is of blue gauze, with a deep silk fringe, white kid gloves, reaching but a short way above the wrist, black satin shoes, handkerchief trimmed with lace; hair in smooth bands; brooch.

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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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