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Writing about mourning is so emotionally draining. This was Ann Frankland Lewis' watercolour for 1797, the year her husband died. Ann had lost her elder daughter only four years previously, and would go on to lose her younger daughter (possibly depicted) in 1810.
I’m meant to be on a train to Aberystwyth and @NLWales, except it got cancelled and there’s a 2 hr wait. So instead I’m discovering @WolvArtGallery. Look at these fabulous finds!
Absolutely adore the promotion of material literacy in these fashion plates. Spinning, painting, knitting or lacemaking: making was embedded within fashionable culture. 🧵🧶🎨
Am putting together a bibliography of work on Britannia as a iconographical figure in the C18th. Any suggestions, dear tweeters? @EHChalus @ProfThomasDixon @Freya_Gowrley