Public promenade dress and demi toilette, February 1847
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- subject matching 'Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Velvet'
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Public promenade dress and demi toilette, February 1847
published by Elizabeth Henderson, published in The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance
hand-coloured etching, published February 1847
7 3/4 in. x 5 1/8 in. (198 mm x 129 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47965
Artistsback to top
- Elizabeth Henderson (active 1839-1847), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 18 portraits.
- The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance, Periodical. Artist or producer associated with 70 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Described in the magazine:
No. 3. Public Promenade Dress. Velvet robe; a high close corsage, and long sleeve of an easy width. The border of the robe is trimmed with a broad band of ermine. Scarf-mantelet and cuffs of the same. Green velvet chapeau: a round close shape, trimmed with a long full ostrich feather.
No. 4. Demi Toilette. Green figured silk robe; a high close corsage, embroidered at the sides with braiding in a chain pattern. Demi-long sleeves over muslin ones. The embroidery is continued on the skirt in a novel kind of tablier, and intermingled with tassels placed at regular distances. Tulle cap; a small round shape, trimmed with pink gauze ribbon and flowers of different colours. Puce velvet demi-manteau, lined with white satin, and trimmed with swansdown.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Muffs
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Half dress; demi-toilet
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Promenade dress; walking dress; Modes de Longchamps; toilette de ville
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Muslin
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Silk
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Tulle
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Velvet
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Fabric hats
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Half dress caps
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Ostrich feathers
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Demi-manteaux; demi-mantles
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Scarf mantlets
- Fashion Plates: Sleeves and cuffs - Engageantes; under-sleeves
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Embroidery
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Ermine
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Swansdown
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Tassels
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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