Home and visiting dress, April 1860
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- subject matching 'Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Pleatings'
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Home and visiting dress, April 1860
published by Rogerson & Tuxford, published in The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, after Héloise Leloir (née Colin)
hand-coloured etching, line and stipple engraving, published April 1860
8 1/4 in. x 6 in. (210 mm x 151 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47982
Artistsback to top
- Héloise Leloir (née Colin) (1820-1873), Painter and draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 6 portraits.
- The New Monthly Belle Assemblée (1832-1869), Magazine. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.
- Rogerson & Tuxford (active 1852-1870), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Described in the magazine:
First Figure - Dress of emerald green silk; knee-deep the skirt is finished by a plaited trimming of the material, bordered with black lace. Body high, round at the waist, and trimmed like the skirt. Tight sleeves, with jockeys at the top and cuffs to match. The body is finished in front with a Duchess bow of silk surrounded by a plaiting of the same. Puffed under-sleeves. Lace collar. For coiffure a tuft of white lace.
Second Figure - Isabeau dress of pansy-coloured terry velvet, trimmed with Hungarian point-lace, bordered by a gold cord. Wide sleeves lined with white satin, and a ruche just inside. Puffed under-sleeves, with a wristband and decorated with muslin puffings. Antique Vandyke collar. Black velvet mantle. Bonnet of black velvet, trimmed with pansy velvet; inside a white blond bandeau, traversed lengthways by small agraffes composed of violets. Lace veil, very short.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Books and libraries
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Toilette d'interieur; robe d'interieur; home dress
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Visiting dress
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Isabeau dresses
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Muslin
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Satin
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Silk
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Velvet
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Bandeaux
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Fabric bonnets
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Veils
- Fashion Plates: Influences - French fashions
- Fashion Plates: Lace - Point lace
- Fashion Plates: Sleeves and cuffs - Engageantes; under-sleeves
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Duchess bows
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Jockeys
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Lace
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Pleatings
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Ruching
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Vandyking
- Fashion Plates: Undergarments - Crinolines
- Flowers and plants
- Gloves and gauntlets
- Hats and head attire
- Jewellery - Brooches, buckles and pins
- Vases, pots and urns
Events of 1860back to top
Current affairs
An early feminist movement, The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded by Adelaide Anne Proctor, Emily Faithfull, Helen Blackburn, Bessie Parks, Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, and Jessie Boucherett.The Florence Nightingale Training School for Nurses opens at St Thomas's Hospital, in London, funded from the testimonial fund collected for Nightingale following her war services, and helping to establish nursing as a profession.
Art and science
William Morris and new wife Jane Burden move into the Red House, near Bexleyheath, Kent. The house, designed by Philip Webb, represents Morris's principle in interior design, that no object should be in a house that is not beautiful.Ford Madox Brown paints The Last of England, showing a boat of emigrants leaving England under desperate circumstances, inspired by the emigration of the Pre-Raphaelite Thomas Woolner to Australia in 1852.
International
Italian unification continues as the Treaty of Turin brings much of Northern Italy under nationalist leader Cavour's control, who cedes Savoy and Nice to France. Garibaldi siezes the opportunity to invade Marsala in Sicily with his army of 1,000 redshirts, proclaiming himself dictator in the name of Victor Emmanuel II.Republican Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US, with only 39% of the popular vote.
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