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'London Fashionable Evening Full Dress'

published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published May 1807
7 3/4 in. x 4 5/8 in. (196 mm x 119 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47536

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Described in the magazine: London Fashionable Full Dress.
Dress of white satin or sarsnet, made strait and close over the bosom, enriched with lace and work; in the centre a sapphire or topaz broach, set with pearls; the waist confined with a silk cord and tassels, tied in a knot on the left side, and reaching to the knee; sleeves full plaited crosswise, and trimmed with lace; and the bottom of the dress ornamented with a rich border of flowers; cap of lace intermixed with white satin, and ornamented with flowers. Persian scarf shawl. White kid gloves and shoes.
Child's vest of cambric muslin, enriched with a worked Grecian border, and several narrow tucks; trowsers of the same, tucked and frilled to correspond. Necklace of blue beads; and blue kid shoes.

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Current affairs

Act is passed abolishing the British slave trade after vigorous campaigning by hundreds of thousands of people led by Thomas Clarkson and championed in parliament by reformer William Wilberforce.
Resignation of 'Ministry of all the Talents'. Whig politician William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland, succeeds as Prime Minister.

Art and science

Thomas Hope publishes Household Furniture and Interior Decoration; influential in promoting Greek and especially Egyptian models as the epitome of fashionable style.

International

French invasion of Spain and Portugal.
Britain occupies Copenhagen and captures the Danish fleet.
Napoleon begins to wage an economic battle against Britain, recognising the impossibility of victory at sea because of Britain's superior naval power. He aims to close the entire European coastline to British trade.

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