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Grand costume and evening dress, January 1847

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Grand costume and evening dress, January 1847

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 3/4 in. (198 mm x 122 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47977

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Described in the magazine:
No. 7. Grand Costume. Pink satin robe, the corsage is low and square at top, and descending in a deep point; it is trimmed with a fall of one of the new fringes of great depth and beauty. Short tight sleeves. Two falls of still deeper fringe decorate the skirt. Green velvet petit bord, trimmed with velvet ribbons, and a profusion of white ostrich feathers.
No. 8. Evening Dress. Grey satin robe; the corsage, low and very deeply pointed, is trimmed round the top with gauze bouillonné of the same colour. Short sleeve covered with gauze puffs. Several rows of bouillonné encircle the bottom of the skirt. Fancy coiffure, composed of crimson velvet ribbon, and gold fringe. Breast knot en suite.
No. 9. Half-dress cap. Composed of spotted tulle, and trimmed with blonde lace, and pink gauze ribbon.

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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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