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Walking dress, April 1841

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Walking dress, April 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 April 1841
8 1/4 in. x 5 3/4 in. (209 mm x 147 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47884

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Described in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes, Court Magazine and Museum on 1 April:
Hat of white gros des Indes, with a demi guirlande of flowers at the left side. White dress with full sleeves, and a canezou of clear muslin à coulisses, trimmed round with lace, and ornamented with puffings of pink ribbon.
2nd figure - Dress of grey poux de soie, white scarf. Hat of poux de soie paille ornamented with flowers.

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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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