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Demi toilette and morning visiting dress, June 1847

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Demi toilette and morning visiting dress, June 1847

by Sangar, published by Elizabeth Henderson, published in The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance
hand-coloured etching, published June 1847
7 3/4 in. x 5 in. (198 mm x 126 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47973

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Described in the magazine:
No. 12. Demi Toilette. Rose-coloured barege robe. The corsage, rather more than half high at the back, and very open on the bosom, is ornamented with butterfly bows of ribbon; the front of the skirt is ornamented en suite, and the sleeves, of a three-quarter length, are trimmed to correspond. The hair, arranged à la Madonna, is decorated with ribbon.
No. 13. Morning Visiting Dress. Muslin robe, over a pea-green silk slip, high corsage, en gerbe, and demi-large sleeve, with a mancheron trimmed with narrow embroidered flounces. Five deep ones decorate the skirt. Straw-coloured crape chapeau, lined with white tulle bouillonné, and trimmed with white ribbon and sprigs of grey lilac.
No. 14. Half Dress Cap. Composed of Honiton lace, and trimmed with a wreath of puffs of straw-coloured ribbon, terminated by floating ends.
No. 15. Morning Canezou. Composed of embroidered cambric, made quite high, and trimmed with a small standing collar, edged with lace. Green neck knot.
No. 16. Dinner Cap. Composed of English lace, and very full trimmed with lace and pink 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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