The Silk Dress |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.539) | |
| Number: | 151 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 209 x 134 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.107; M.115 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
The Silk Dress probably dates from 1875.
It is dated from the costume, with its narrow skirt and gathered train, but it is not as extremely narrow a skirt as was seen in some ultra-fashionable dress at the time. 1
Related portraits include The Velvet Dress (Mrs Leyland) [120] and The Little Velvet Dress [119].
Related portraits include The Velvet Dress (Mrs Leyland) [120] and The Little Velvet Dress [119].
1: See for instance, G. Du Maurier, 'TO UPHOLSTERERS, etc.', Punch, 22 May 1875, p. 218