'The Fashions', July 1864
25 of 40 portraits by Samuel Orchart Beeton
© National Portrait Gallery, London
'The Fashions', July 1864
by Rigolet, published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published July 1864
5 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in. (133 mm x 210 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D48009
Artistsback to top
- Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831-1877), Publisher and journalist; husband of Mrs Isabella Beeton. Artist or producer associated with 40 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (1852-1879), Magazine. Artist or producer associated with 40 portraits.
- Le Moniteur de la Mode (1843-1913), French magazine. Artist or producer associated with 40 portraits.
- Rigolet (active 1864), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Buildings and architecture
- Children
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Parasols
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Morning walking dress; walking dress
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Promenade dress; walking dress; Modes de Longchamps; toilette de ville
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Toilette d'interieur; robe d'interieur; home dress
- Fashion Plates: Bodices - Swiss belt bodices
- Fashion Plates: Children - Dresses and skirts
- Fashion Plates: Children - Hoops
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Peplums
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Under-dresses; under-skirts
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Lace
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Hairnets; résilles
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Scotch caps
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Veils
- Fashion Plates: Influences - French fashions
- Fashion Plates: Neckwear - Berthas; berthes
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Rotondes
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Shawls
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Ruching
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Tassels
- Fashion Plates: Undergarments - Chemisettes; habit-shirts
- Fashion Plates: Undergarments - Crinolines
- Group portraits
- Hats and head attire
- Puppets, dolls and toys
Events of 1864back to top
Current affairs
First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.
Art and science
The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.International
Austria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.
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