#1840 fashion

[frostedmagnolias]

Dressing Gown

c. 1840

Litchfield Historical Society

[die-rosastrasse]

Ball gown, 1840-41

Maker: Unknown

From the collection of Wien Museum

[fashionsfromhistory]

Pelisse

1835-1840

United States or England

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (Object Number: 1996-273

[ghw-archive]

'The Letter', life study by Sir Edwin Landseer, made ca. 1830-40.

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Ensemble.

Date: 1840–1880

Culture: Slovak

Medium: wool, cotton, silk

[chic-a-gigot]

19th century fashion plates, designs, etc.

(with late 18th and early 20th century plates)

Tagged by decade:

1790s | 1800s | 1810s | 1820s | 1830s | 1840s | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s

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[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Kochubey-Baryatinskaya, Christina Robertson. 1840s.

[daguerreotyping]

Stereoscopic daguerreotype of two men playing chess in front of a mirror, c. 1840s

[dozydawn]

[eirene]

Portrait of a Lady, 1846

Karl von Blaas

[yesterdaysprint]

The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, 1847

[frostedmagnolias]

Patterned Silk Evening Gown

c. 1840

Augusta Auctions

[clove-pinks]

Men of the monarchie de juillet by Paul Gavarni, 1840-1841 (Paris Musées).

[fashionsfromhistory]

Vest

c.1845

England

LACMA (Accession Number: M.87.219)

[antiquebee]

Nancy Foy Lawson by William Matthew Prior, 1843

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening dress.

Date: ca. 1840

Medium: Cotton, silk