akg-images | Jane Austen fashion


					Lost in Austen fashion

« Back

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was first published 200 years ago on 28 January 1813. We look at some of the glorious Regency fashions that her beloved heroines could have worn through images in the archive.

7-ALB-1465511
An engraving of the author herself (1775-1817)
akg-images / album

2-M141-A1-1802-1
François-André Vincent, The Comte de La Forest with his wife and daughter, 1802
akg-images / Erich Lessing

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

2-J33-S2-1815
On the way to church on Sunday Morning, Edmund Blair Leighton, 1891
© Sotheby's / akg-images

2-M141-G3-1800-1
Jean Baptiste Isabey, Family portrait, circa 1800
akg-images / André Held

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

2-M115-W1-1801
An etching showing fashionable people dancing a waltz, circa 1801
akg-images

2-M141-A1-1798
A family portrait attributed to David with a handsome son ready to woo... or disappoint
akg-images / Maurice Babey

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

3EN-H7-R2
John Hoppner's Portrait of a lady, circa 1790
akg-images

3-K17-U5-B
A Couple at the window have a private conversarion, Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1817
akg-images

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

5FK-P1-Z3-1805-1
Austen is quintessentially English, as is the rain: Louis-Léopold Boilly, The downpour, 1805
akg-images / Erich Lessing

2-M145-A2-1816-1
Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, Young lady with drawing utensils, 1816
akg-images

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

2-M145-A2-1810-10
François Gérard, Marquise Visconti, 1810
akg-images / Erich Lessing

2-M86-D1-1804-1
Woodcut after a drawing by Albert Robida of a Grand Chapeau Empire, circa 1804
akg-images

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

2-M80-A5-1810-3
Dress competed, an etched caricature by Gillray, 1810
akg-images

2-M80-B2-1823
Reader I married him: A bridal dress from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashion, and Politics, London 1823/28
akg-images / British Library

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

2-M80-D1800-2
Grace Fashion, and Manners. From the life, an etching by Gillray, circa 1800
akg-images

2-M80-D1810-9
Chemise dress with eyelet embroidery and a cashmire shawl decorated with a paisley design, 1810
akg-images / MPortfolio / Electa

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

7IT-E2-163436
Giuseppe Collington, Woman with harp, 1812
akg-images / MPortfolio / Electa

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

7IT-E2-489410
From the sign for a chocolate shop, circa 1800
akg-images / MPortfolio / Electa

7US-N1-GEUR2A-00098
Ladies reading and a couple walking, circa 1802
akg-images / North Wind Picture Archives

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN

Didn't find the image you wanted
in this selection?

There's plenty more historical fashion in the akg-images archive. Search the database yourself or email through a request list, we're happy to help!

7-UB-00728515
Ladies at the opera, 1800s
akg-images / ullstein bild

ORDER A HIGH-RES SCAN