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Evening and walking dress, June 1860

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Evening and walking dress, June 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 June 1860
8 1/4 in. x 5 7/8 in. (210 mm x 149 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47984

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Described in the magazine:
First Figure - Evening dress of white tarlatane, with two skirts at the bottom of the first four puffings of the material, separated by small mauve silk ruches pinked at the edges. The second skirt is double, being turned up underneath, and consequently stands out well. Two long ends of ribbon lightly catch it upon the right by passing under it. Sleeves wide, decorated by a silk ruche to match those on the skirt: they are likewise caught up by a ribbon under the arm. Body high, half silk and half tarlatane, the latter forming small perpendicular puffings, separated by narrow biais bands of mauve silk. The back is like the front, but the silk part is laced. Head-dress of white tulle, forming a pointe à la Marie Stuart. In front this point is bordered by a pinked ruche of mauve silk; on each side of the head-dress are tufts of violet and a gold pin with balls; behind, two wide barbes of plain blond, bordered by ruches, which float on the shoulders like a veil. Where the body is cut away in front, round the next, instead of a tarlatane puffing like that round the silk part, a ruche of plain blond may be placed, as it harmonizes better with the complexion than the dead white of the tarlatane, and is much lighter. White gloves, buttoned. Rich bracelets.
Second Figure - Walking Dress of French moire, or plain silk emerald green. Sleeves half-wide, with a black velvet jockey and cuff of the same. In front of the skirt, from the body downwards, are three rows of black velvet macaroon buttons set in lace. If preferred, rosettes of narrow green ribbon may be used. Black silk pardessus, covered with four flounces of black lace. The sleeves are wide, cut square at the end, and are trimmed with plaitings and a straw ornament, which also encircles the skirt and shoulder-piece. White crape bonnet, with a fanchon of black lace. On the left a tuft of flowers; inside the front a bandeau of the same. Very wide strings of groseille ribbon. Blond down the cheeks. Brussels lace collar. Puffed tulle under-sleeves, with a band. Jonquil gloves, glazed.

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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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