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Ball Dress, October 1809, Plate 24, Vol. 2.

Print

Fashion plate depicting a woman in a blue ball dress with short, puffed sleeves with white trim. Along the bottom of the sleeves and all down the center front of the dress, small, dark-blue ribbon bows.

2022.35.0504

Colored Engraving

Paper

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Fashion Plate

Historic Costume

Ackermann's Repository of Arts

1809

19th Century

Early 19th Century

Plate 24, Vol. 2. / Ball Dress. / No. 10 of ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY of ARTS & Pub. Octr. 1st 1809 at 101 Strand LONDON

English

Old Number

2010.073.05

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