# onthisday royal

A fashion mishap for these intrepid Chemise a la rain. Or an excellent shift for bad weather!!!, 1805, via the British Museum.

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2020-06-30

Dr. Samuel Phillips Eady, a quack specialist in sexual health, certainly seems to get on well with his glamorous patients! "The Commercial Dandy and his sleeping partners", by George Cruikshank, 1821. via the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection.

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2020-06-30

Skittles and beer for some gals - and not a chap in sight! Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine, by John Collet, 1779, via the British Musuem.

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2020-06-29

The Ruined Girl, 1781, mourns her broken heart. Poor lamb!

"Oh! fatal Day when to my Virtues wrong,
I fondly listen’d to his flattering Tongue,
But oh! more fatal Moment when he gain’d,
That vile Consent which all my Glory staind."

from the British Museum.

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2020-06-25

On a hot day like today, throw on your red shoes and recline beside a river! Musidora or Summer Evening, 1784. via the British Museum.

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2020-06-25

On a hot summer day, the let it all hang out... Intrepid bathers and dirty old men have been the stuff of seaside scenes for centuries! Summer amusement at Margate, or a peep at the mermaids, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson. Via the British Museum.

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2020-06-24

Actual footage of pubs reopening... The Pantheon in Oxford Street, by Edwards, 1773. via the British Museum.

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2020-06-22

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... via the Lewis Walpole Library.

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2020-06-22

The 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.

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2020-06-21

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.

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2020-06-19

“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! via the British Museum.

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2020-06-18

The Bum-Bailiff is outwitted by a canny lady who abandons her scaffolded frock to make good her escape! of 1786 via the British Museum.

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2020-06-17

For the lady who has everything, how about a personal puppet dandy? Cruikshank’s The English Ladies Dandy Toy, via the British Museum. gloriousgeorgians

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2020-06-16

A fashionable mama breastfeeds her baby in Friedrich Tischbein's Portrait of a Family, c.1795-1800, via Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel.

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2020-06-16

Harriet Martineau, sociologist, was born 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”.

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2020-06-12

When Lady Coventry (l) called Kitty Fisher (r) impertinent for carrying on with her husband, Lord Coventry, Kitty said she would "accept this insult because Maria was socially superior, but she was going to marry a Lord herself just to be able to answer back."

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2020-06-09

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was born in 1660. The hugely influential duchess was one of the most powerful women of her age and a close friend of Queen Anne.

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2020-06-05

“It’s called fashion. Look it up.” Fashionista Beau Brummell laces the gargantuan Prince Regent into his stays in “1812 or Regency à la Mode”, by William Heath. via The Met.

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2020-06-03

Nature is healing and flying penises are being spotted in the wild once more. German snuffbox, via Bonhams.

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2020-05-29

Phoebe Hessel, "the Stepney Amazon", served in the British Army in disguise as a man. She was sent packing when her gender was revealed after she was sentenced to be lashed. She lived to the age of 108 and was granted a pension by the Regent for her service!

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2020-05-20