Fashionable Undress and Fashionable Riding Habits

Category

Library Item

Item no

33419

Title

Fashionable undress and Fashionable riding habits for July 1799

Description

On the left are ladies modelling fashionable 'undress' and on the right, ladies in horse-riding attire.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1799

Size

17.2 x 19.6 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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