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Evening dresses, January 1847

13 of 16 portraits matching these criteria:

- subject matching 'Fashion Plates: Hair - Head-dresses of hair'

published by Elizabeth Henderson, published in The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance
hand-coloured etching, published January 1847
7 3/4 in. x 4 7/8 in. (198 mm x 123 mm) paper size
acquired unknown source, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47978

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Elizabeth Henderson (active 1839-1847), Publisher. Artist associated with 18 portraits.
The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance, Periodical. Artist associated with 70 portraits.

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Described in the magazine:
No. 10. Evening Dress. Rose-coloured velvet robe; a low corsage, very deeply pointed, and trimmed with a berthe of gold blonde lace. Short tight sleeves. Head-dress of hair, ornamented with flowers. Evening mantle, composed of blue and lined with white satin; it is made quite up to the throat, and nearly as long as the dress, with broad robings from the shoulders. The garniture is a rich fringe, an embroidery in passementerie, and fancy ornaments of the same on the shoulders, neck, and waist.
No. 11. Evening Dress. Fawn coloured figured satin robe; a low corsage and short tight sleeves. Mantelet à la princesse of white satin; the back part is composed of three rounded falls, descending very low, embroidered and bordered with a trimming of the same; the scarf ends, which are also very long, correspond. The head-dress is a wreath of velvet foliage, interspersed with flowers.
No. 13. Dinner cap. Composed of tulle, and trimmed with blonde lace, which forms a deep bavolet; the garniture is a wreath of foliage, with gerbes of drooping flowers.

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Fashion plates, 1770-1869

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Events of 1847back to top

Current affairs

The 10 Hours Factory Act passed, regulating working hours for women and children under the age of eighteen to a maximum of ten hours a day.
The Communist League is founded in London, and drew up a set of rules and aims, including overthrowing the bourgeoisie and empowering the Proleteriat, and ending class division, forming the basis of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto (1848).}
Death and emigration resulting from starvation, plague and disease during worst year of the Great Famine in Ireland, known as Black 47.

Art and science

A good year for novels: Emily Bronte's passionate, rebellious and gothic Wuthering Heightsis published, followed shortly by her sister Charlotte's 'Jane Eyre, a story of a governess's struggle for liberty from social and gender constrictions. Drawing on a similar vein of revolution and rebellious women, William Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair is serialised.

International

The Don Pacifico affair sparks an international incident, when the Jewish trader's business was burned in an anti-semitic attack in Athens. When the Greek government refused to compensate him, Gibraltar-born Pacifico appealed to the British government. Foreign Minister Palmerston sent a squadron into the Aegean in 1850 to seize goods of the equivalent value, leading to strained relations with Turkey and Russia, and heated debates in Parliament.

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