Fashion plate, from La Belle Assembleé

This hand-coloured fashion plate is from La Belle Assembleé, a ladies' monthly magazine published in London. The plate illustrates a winter carriage dress and appeared in issue no 107 on 1 February, 1818.

The text at the foot of the plate reads, 'Invented by Mrs Thomas, Wellington House'.

After the first nine months of publication, La Belle Assembleé was issued in two forms - one with monochrome plates costing half-a-crown and one with colour plates costing a shilling extra. The magazine was in circulation from 1806 until 1869.

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• Online ID: 000-100-104-765-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 19.14
• Date: 1 March 1818
  1818
  
• Material: Paper. Inscription: Winter Carriage Dress. Invented by Mrs Thomas, Wellington House.
  Document / plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 9.40" x 5.40"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates
  
• Who: La Belle Assemblee
  Mrs Thomas (Dress designer)
  
• Where: England, London
  
• Event:
• Description: Fashion plate showing a winter carriage dress, invented by Mrs Thomas, from La Belle Assemblee, number 107, 1 March 1818
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, pp 54-5. 
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