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Toilette d'intérieur, January 1843

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Toilette d'intérieur, January 1843

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 January 1843
8 in. x 5 5/8 in. (203 mm x 142 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47912

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Described in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes, Court Magazine and Museum on 1 January:
First or standing figure. Dress of green velvet ornamented with black buttons and passementerie; the corsage is elegantly high, and the sleeves, plain to the elbow, loose to the wrist, are cut in the form of the oriental sleeves, that is very pretty. Bonnet of tulle ornamented with same rosy ribbons and a bunch of little roses at the side.
Second or standing [sitting] figure. Dress of lilac poult de soie. The corsage is high and the sleeves are plain and opening upon a second pagode sleeve. Bonnet of a long-ending dentelle ornamented with some little simple flowers and ribbons of yellow satin.

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Current affairs

Sir Henry Cole commissions 1,000 copies of the first Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley. Cole would later be instrumental in staging the Great Exhibition, and in developing science and art education in Britain.
Nelson's statue, by E.H. Bailey, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square.

Art and science

The Theatre Regulations Act is passed, abolishing the privileged position of the 'major' theatres which held letters patent from the crown, allowing all theatres to perform 'legitimate' theatre.
First volume of Ruskin's Modern Painters published, praising Turner and demanding that artists should demonstrate 'truth to nature' in their work. Ruskin is a great inspiration to the Pre-Raphaelites.

International

The first experimental telegraph wire is constructed between Baltimore and Washington, using Morse code to send a message. The code, in which pulses of current deflect an electromagnet, moving a marker and producing written codes on a strip of paper, had been invented by Samuel Morse in 1838. The line officially opens in 1844.

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