Fashion plate, from The Repository of Arts

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from a scrap album containing a selection of 19th century plates. The plate is from The Repository of Arts, a monthly magazine published in London by Rudolph Ackermann. Dated July, 1815, it illustrates an evening dress.

The figure is drawn with the back facing, in order to give an appreciation of the back of both the dress and the head dress. Dress styles at this time were influenced by Greece and Rome with high waistlines and a strong emphasis on the vertical line.

The magazine's full title was 'The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics' and it was therefore clearly not exclusively a fashion magazine. It was in publication from 1808 until 1829.

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• Online ID: 000-100-104-850-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 154.3
• Date: 1815
  
• Material: Paper. Inscription: Evening Dress
  Document / plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 14.80" x 10.00"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates
  
• Who: Ackermann's Repository of Arts
  
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• Description: Fashion plate showing an evening dress and head dress, from Ackermann's Repository of Arts, July 1815
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, pp 56-7. 
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