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Visiting or walking dress, November 1842

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Visiting or walking dress, November 1842

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 November 1842
8 1/4 in. x 5 3/4 in. (210 mm x 147 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47910

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Described in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes, Court Magazine and Museum on 1 November:
First standing figure. Dress of black satin, surtout sans couture, tight at the top and encircled at the waist by a rich cordelière. The sleeves are very full, opened à la religieuse and trimmed with passementerie which goes down before and is continued round the entire back of the corsage. Capotte of pale yellow satin, garnished with plumes and coloured ribbons; yellow kid gloves; black shoes.
Second, or sitting figure. Dress of green pekin ornamented with biais en tablier, corsage à pointe, coulissé, and remarkably high, sleeves coulissées to the elbow and half full at the top; there are small jockeys in the shoulders: they are trimmed with an elegant soutache. Brown hat of velours plain with a very long plume of similar shade. Yellow kid gloves; black shoes.

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Current affairs

Edwin Chadwick publishes his damning report, Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Poor, which details the shocking living conditions of the urban poor and prompts government to take a new interest in public health issues.
A year-long depression and the rejection of the Chartist petition leads to riots, with workers striking in the Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and parts of Scotland.

Art and science

Mudie's Lending Library opens, becoming one of the largest circulating libraries in the period. Made popular by the otherwise high cost of books, it exerts a great influence over literature; both by maintaining the more costly 'three decker' novel structure, and acting as moral censor.
Richard Owen, the English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, coins the term 'dinosaur', combining the Greek words for 'formidable' and 'reptile'.

International

Treaty of Nanjing, which allows China to trade with Britain and lends Hong Kong to the British crown for 150 years. In Afghanistan, the Anglo-Afghan war ends as the British abandon Kabul, withdrawing to India and losing most of their garrison force in the operation with only one member, Dr William Brydon, surviving.

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