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The Exquisite, Alias Dandy in Distress, is so buttoned up and laced in that he can't pick up his fallen kerchief! This image illustrates a letter from a correspondent (beneath the image) who has concerns about modern fashions... #gloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library.
The #gloriousGeorgians loved to rib the Prince Regent as often and as cheekily as possible! “A view of the R-g-t's bomb" by Charles Williams, 1816, is more concerned with the Prince’s was enormous bum than the mortar he received from the Spanish after the Peninsula War.
She’s got a lot of front, as my gran would’ve said. Dollalolla, by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, via the Tate. Dance-Holland produced a number of comical sketches after his retirement, and this is one of them. #gloriousGeorgians
“I don’t wear wigs, this is my hair.” In La brillante toillete de la Déesse du Gout, c.1775, a fashionable lady models a towering wig for her adoring macaroni as her maid prepares another! #gloriousGeorgians via the British Museum.
The Bum-Bailiff is outwitted by a canny lady who abandons her scaffolded frock to make good her escape! #gloriousGeorgians of 1786 via the British Museum.
For the lady who has everything, how about a personal puppet dandy? Cruikshank’s The English Ladies Dandy Toy, via the British Museum. #gloriousgeorgians gloriousgeorgians
A fashionable mama breastfeeds her baby in Friedrich Tischbein's Portrait of a Family, c.1795-1800, via Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel. #gloriousGeorgians
"You ain't seen me, guv'nor." This no-nonsense baby is the work of Mary Beale. Mary's popular studio was in London and she employed her husband to mix her paints and do her paperwork while she got on with her painting! A bruiser of a bub from the V&A.
Heinrich Hoffmann, the man behind the frankly terrifying Shockheaded Peter, was born #onthisday in 1809. And a million childhood nightmares began…
Harriet Martineau, sociologist, was born #onthisday in 1802. She became "a great Lion in London, much patronized by Ld. Brougham who has set her to write stories on the poor Laws”. #gloriousGeorgians