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Lady Anne Horatia Seymour, née Waldegrave (1762-1801) by Henry Pierce Bone...
Her article in thepeerage is here. She married Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour and had six children. She is the Waldegrave sister to the right in this image.From the Christie's Web site.This portrait was...
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1789 The Waldegrave Sisters - Lady Anna Horatia and Lady Charlotte Maria by...
Christie's lot notes for this follow, "Anna Horatia (d. 1801) and Charlotte Maria (1761-1801), daughters of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1714/15-1763) and Maria, illegitimate daughter of Hon. Sir Edward...
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1783 Hon. Charlotte Clive by George Romney (Powis Castle - Welshpool, Powys UK)
This portrait is not Lady Charlotte Florentia Clive who was born in 1787. This Charlotte Clive lived between 1762 and 1795 and did not marry.From 18thcenturyblog.com/2012/03/george-romney.The coiffure...
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ca. 1800 Noble Lady in blue dress by ? (Leon Wilnitsky)
From the Leon Wilnitsky Web site; height adjusted to 25.4 cm (10 inches) at 28.35 pixels/cm.The dress looks like it has a zone or tent bodice, but this may be a jeweled bodice ornament adorning a...
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1777-1778 Hester and Queeney Thrale by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Beaverbrook Art...
Her Wikipedia article is here. Queenie's Wikipedia article is here. Her article in thepeerage is here. Queeney's article in thepeerage is here.From...
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ca. 1789 Honourable Elizabeth Ingram (1762–1817) (later Mrs Hugo Meynell) by...
Her article in thepeerage is here.Elizabeth Ingram wears a perennial favorite - a wide brimmed hat. She also wears a fichu, probably concealing most of what would otherwise be uncovered by a square...
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1792 Lady Delaval (?) by John Downman (Tate Collection - London UK)
This could be Frances, Sophia, or Sarah Delaval.From the Tate Web site.Revolution? What revolution? Coiffures and dresses continue in the UK from the 1780s.Keywords: 1792, Delaval family, bouffant...
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ca. 1780 French silk and metallic thread caraco (Metropolitan Museum of Art -...
Americanduchess takes a shot at defining all of these jacket styles - after a cautionary note:"Disclaimer: The information in this post is what I have gleened from sources, but the lines seem very...
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1780 Caraco à la Polonoise garni de gaze, un ruban de couleur sur le haut des...
This shows what people called a caraco in 1780. The monumental coiffures that sprouted in the 1760s and grew through the 1770s have reached full development. The Duchess of Devonshire's renown has...
View ArticleCasaquin à la polonaise Louis XVI Printed stripes adorned, burgundy, white...
From www.jardinsdutemps.org/t56-casaquin-a-la-polonaise; posted by Lya de Beaumont.
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Lady dressed in Caraco, wearing a cap in Pouponne and mesh, decorated with...
This copy comes from Boston, Massachusetts' Museum of Fine Arts, but the municipality of Versailles also has a copy.Her coiffure is not sustainable, even if it has a mesh framework core unless she...
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1784 Robe à l'anglaise by François Watteau and engraved by Pierre Adrien Le...
This fashion plate shows how pouffy skirts for informal occasions are in the 1780s and the seams used to shape the back bodice of a 1784 robe à l'anglaise.Keywords: 1784, Watteau - François, Le Beau -...
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ca. 1785 Pierrot jacket (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York...
This jacket has just a hint of flaring in the back to qualify it as a Pierrot. What is most interesting is the stripes are set to be straight when the arm is bent at about a 45-degree angle.The...
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ca. 1790-1791 French casaquin
Left image from contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/2010/08/, the center-left image from mississippisisters.blogspot.com/2010/06/french-casaquin, the center right image from...
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1778 Robe à la Versailloise de Gros de Naples couleur gris by LeClerc (Museum...
From the Museum of Fine Arts Web site.A dress with skirts like this may challenge girls wearing them for the first time. This dress with its expanse of pleated white material and the bulky coiffure...
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1780s English pet en l'ier (Machester Art Gallery - Manchester, Lancashire UK)
Front image from the Manchester Gallery, the back image is from mantuamaker.tumblr.com.This pet en l'ier jacket has a pleated back like a caraco with the hem of the pleats being higher than the rest of...
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1787 (October) Riding habit from Magasin des Modes
From damesalamode.tumblr.com/post.This equestrian dress blends a flounced pouffy skirt with a vest and waist band under a military style jacket. This rider would be forced to doff her hat to ride...
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ca. 1785 Susannah Edith, Lady Rowley by John Hoppner (Detroit Institute of...
Her article in thepeerage is here.From boverijuancarlospintores.blogspot.com; image made lighter by gogm.Lady Susannah wears a 1780s-style boffant coiffure with large challah bread-like curls and dress...
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1777-1778 Isabella Lady Beauchamp by Sir Joshua Reynolds (location unknown to...
Her article in thepeerage is here while her article in Wikipedia is here. She bore a son by her husband, Francis Seymour-Ingram, 2nd Marquess of Hertford and "She and George IV Hanover, King of the...
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