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