Man's Suit (Coat and Breeches), Unknown, 1785-1790, Costumes, Coat: silk cut velvet with floating-warp and self-weft patterning with silk embroidery, paste (glass) stones and sequins .
Returning from my first trip to France, I was inspired to make a costume gown to honor one of my favorite historical figures, Marie Antoinette.Before I began designing the gown, I did intensive research on Rococo fashion from the 1770s. Pulling my favo…
Women's dress: bodice and overskirt in orange silk shantung; skirt and buillonne in gold iridescent orange silk blend, neckline and falls in ivory lace.
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Portrait of Katherine Hall of Dunglass
This picture was painted in Edinburgh in 1736. Shortly after, Ramsay left for London on the first stage of his journey to Italy where he was to study under Francesco Imperiali and attend the French Academy in Rome. Ramsay’s period of intensive study was to initiate a dramatic transformation in his style. The sittings for this early portrait would have taken place in the house on Castlehill in Edinburgh known as ‘Guse-pye’ (goose pie) which he had recently built for his father and namesake, the poet Allan Ramsay. Katherine Hall, the younger daughter of Sir James Hall, 2nd Baronet, of Dunglass married in 1743 the poet William Hamilton of Bangour who was a contributor to the Tea-Table Miscellany published by Ramsay senior.
Allan Ramsay Portrait of Katherine Hall of Dunglass 1736 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland "This picture was painted in ...
Louis-Roland Triquesse (1791 Portait de une Dame
Woman's Dress (Robe à l'anglaise), Unknown, England, circa 1790, Costumes, Cotton plain weave, block printed and hand painted.
Gown on The John Bright Collection
Which way should the stripes run on ladies sleeves 1770-1790? Let's look at striped sleeves in extant garments and images to find out?
1770s Cotton Summer Dress
