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For #Halloween, my fav Georgian witches: "The "Three Witches from Macbeth (Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Anne Seymour Damer)" by Daniel Gardner, 1775, @Nationalportraitgallery
ICYMI - Blog post: Abigail Adams disapproves of French fashion, c1800 https://t.co/igbb9HtCmc #fashionhistory #AbigailAdams
Blog post: Abigail Adams disapproves of French fashion, c1800 https://t.co/6NNMaNKYNI #fashionhistory #AbigailAdams
New blog post: The Littlest Camp Followers, c1776: https://t.co/v9Uv897cxP @AmRevMuseum #VastEarlyAmerica #AmericanRevolution
Perfect flower-bedecked place for watching the world pass...."Femme espagnole-au-balcon/Spanish Women on Balcony" by Georges Jules Victor Clairin, c1919, private collection.
"Portrait of Princess Karoline von Liechtenstein, née Countess von Manderscheit (1768-1831), as Iris" by Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, 1793. Iris was a lesser goddess of rainbows, sea, & sky, & also served as a messenger, floating gracefully through the sky on some official biz.
One of my fav portraits @metmuseum Esp. like how her red hair is artfully braided across her brow & held in place with a curving pearl comb. "Mrs. Robert Dickey (Anne Brown)" by John Wesley Jarvis, 1807-10 https://t.co/nv0ZfWorHx
Stylish gentleman: Esp. like the six-pointed stars repeated on the buttons of both waistcoat & coat - plus extra love for that carnelian pinkie ring. "Portrait of an English Architect" unsigned, 18thc English School @JohnMoranInc #fashionhistory
One of my fav old blogs. The wildly fanciful "Puritian maidens" painted in the 19thc by George Henry Boughton - and they still turn up around Thanksgiving as examples of 17thc Massachusetts "Pilgrims." https://t.co/6iErITxPZr
The most glamorous pretend-witches in Georgian England: "The Three Witches from Macbeth (Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Anne Seymour Damer)" by Daniel Gardner, 1775 @nationalportraitgallery