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Ball Dress 1822

Print

Fashion plate depicting a woman in a white ball dress with short, puffed sleeves, and red ribbon trim. Her head is crowned with a garland of roses.

2022.35.0103

Paper

Colored Engraving

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Fashion Plate

Historic Costume

Ackermann's Repository of Arts

1822

19th Century

Early 19th Century

Technique: Hand Colored

Ball Dress. / 1822 / No. 81 of R. ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY of ARTS & Pub. Sept.r 1 1822.

English

Old Number

95.005.05

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