A fashion plate from the November 1811 issue ''Ackermann's Repository of Arts'' was an illustrated British periodical published from 1809 to 1829 by

Rudolph Ackermann Rudolph Ackermann (20 April 1764 in Schneeberg, Electorate of Saxony – 30 March 1834 in Finchley, London) was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. Biography He attended the Latin school in Stollbe ...

. Although commonly called ''Ackermann's Repository'', or, simply ''Ackermann's'', the formal title of the journal was ''Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics'', and it did indeed cover all of these fields. In its day, it had great influence on English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature.''Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814–1840'', by Alison Adburgham, 1983, p. 224 Ackermann employed Frederic Shoberl from the third issue in 1809 to 1828 when Shoberl moved on to similar projects.G. C. Boase, "Shoberl, Frederic (1775–1853)", rev. Nilanjana Banerji, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> The last issue of the original ''Repository'', published in December 1828, stated that the following year a new magazine would take its place. This new magazine, titled ''The Repository of Fashion,'' focused solely on fashion and was illustrated with a number of hand-colored and black-and-white plates. However, the last known issue of this new periodical was in September 1829. It is believed that soon thereafter, ''The Repository of Fashion'' was merged into ''

La Belle Assemblée ''La Belle Assemblée'' (in full ''La Belle Assemblée or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies'') was a British women's magazine published from 1806 to 1837, founded by John Bell (1745–1831). Publishi ...

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External links

Ackermann's Repository at the Internet Archive

Ackermann's ''The Repository of Fashion'' 1829 at Google Books
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