# fashionplate summerpromenade

"Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." John Ruskin
Fireboard, 1790 "Comtemplation by the Shore, 1790, American. Via

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2021-08-22

I find balance & interplay of form & color in this especially appealing. Full yellow dress, accented by the blue gloves & jaunty red hat….delightful! From the Gallery of Fashion, October 1797. Several versions may be found online

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2018-07-15