Fashionable Full Dress for July 1799

Category

Library Item

Item no

33418

Title

Fashionable full dress for July 1799

Description

The accompanying article in 'The Lady's Monthly Museum' is entitled, The misfortune which too often attends the possession of beauty, and reads:

Although beauty is allowed to be one of the most desirable, it is certainly one of the most dangerous possessions that can fall to the female lot....
unless it is guarded by principle and defended by prudence, becomes the ruin of virtue, and the destruction of innocence; and even when adorned with these perfections, it is often the source of the most severe misfortunes.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1799

Size

17.2 x 9.8 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Art and Design Library

This image is taken from The Lady's Monthly Museum, a volume which includes editions from July, August, September, October, November and December 1799.

As well as these coloured engravings from the 'Cabinet of Fashion' the magazines contain literature and theatre reviews, letters to the editor, poetry, articles on female historical figures such as Lady Jane Grey and Mary Queen of Scots and 'charades' (or poetic riddles).

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