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Evening dress – Historic Reproduction

Evening dress, 1836 — antique engraving
Evening dress, 1836. Antique engraving from the Family Life collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Evening dress

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This hand-colored engraving presents an evening dress as it appeared in the April 1836 issue, number 46, of the *Court Magazine*, a London periodical aimed at fashionable women. Fashion plates like this one gave readers their main view of current styles, and the color was typically added by hand, so each impression varied slightly. The mid-1830s silhouette, with a narrow waist, full skirts, and large sleeves, is what makes such plates useful to historians of dress today.

Created / published1836
Medium1 print : engraving, hand-colored.
GenreFashion plates 1830-1840.Engravings Hand-colored 1830-1840.
NotesPublished in the Court magazine, no. 46, April 1836.
SubjectsWomen--Clothing & dress--1830-1840.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,143 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218975

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