Morning Dress – Summer 1822

Ackermann’s Repository 1822: Regency Morning Tea Dress and Domestic Elegance

This exquisite hand-colored fashion engraving from July 1822, sourced from Rudolph Ackermann’s The Repository of Arts, captures a sophisticated domestic morning tea setting. The illustration depicts a single seated lady delicately holding a teacup, positioned next to a beautifully set round table featuring a classic silver teapot, sugar basin, and cream jug. She models an elegant white morning dress with the high-waisted Empire line characteristic of the late Regency era, decorated with intricate lace-trimmed tiers along the hemline and cuffs, portraying the peak of Georgian domestic leisure and refined table manners.

Georgian Salon Furniture, Fine Muslin Gowns, and Archival London Imprints

The seated figure rests on a finely carved yellow upholstered salon chair, with a heavy patterned fringed shawl casually draped over its back to suggest indoor comfort. Her outfit is completed by an elaborate white lace morning cap adorned with soft purple ribbons and a high, structured ruff collar that frames her face. The bottom margin includes vital historical metadata for search engine indexing, showing the plate number from Volume XIV and the signature imprint of R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, providing distinct long-tail keywords for collectors of authentic nineteenth-century British fashion lithographs.