'London fashionable Afternoon Dresses', April 1805
17 of 154 portraits matching these criteria:
- subject matching 'Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Muslin'
© National Portrait Gallery, London
'London fashionable Afternoon Dresses', April 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published April 1805
8 1/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (205 mm x 113 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47538
Artistback to top
- The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832), Magazine. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Described in the magazine:
Black crape turban, with jet ornaments; crape dress, with lozenge black velvet trimming down the front; drawn crape tucker, and black velvet shoes.
Two-figure Lenon [leno] muslin turban, with long lappets; the hair straight over the forehead; worked muslin dress, Circassian sleeves; armlets with pebble ornaments; brown velvet shoes.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Double portraits
- Fashion Plates: Accessories - Indispensables; reticules; ridicules
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Afternoon dress
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Mourning Dress
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Round train dresses
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Crape; Crêpe
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Leno
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Muslin
- Fashion Plates: Footwear - Velvet shoes
- Fashion Plates: Hair - à la Madonna
- Fashion Plates: Hair - Classical Greek hairstyles
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Lappets
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Turbans
- Fashion Plates: Influences - Classical influence
- Fashion Plates: Neckwear - Tuckers; chemise-tuckers
- Fashion Plates: Sleeves and cuffs - Circassian sleeves
- Jewellery - Amulets and religious symbology
- Jewellery - Pendants and necklaces
Events of 1805back to top
Current affairs
Nelson's state funeral is held at St Paul's. An occasion for an outpouring of national grief and patriotism, the grand ceremony built on the cult of Nelson which had emerged in the years before his death.Art and science
Mary Tighe publishes Pysche or the Legend of Love, a romantic allegory in the fashionable medieval revival style, admired by both Keats and Shelley.The 'poems of Ossian' are officially declared a fake and a great literary scandal ends as Scottish poet James Macpherson is exposed as the forger of the third century bard's epic works.
International
Battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon's ultimate plan to invade England from Boulogne with 100,000 men is thwarted by superior British naval power. Nelson dies in the closing moments of battle having been wounded by a French sniper, but survives long enough to learn that a decisive victory has been won.Comments back to top
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