Category: Illustrations

Time for a ‘SUMMERY’ Fashion Plate

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It has been SOOOO hot this summer – looking at this should cool you down…

Things to watch for: Summer newsletter from ‘The Glen’ and a coming focus on authors Mary Stewart and Rumer Godden – I have been re-reading…

Time for a Fashion Plate!

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Here is a mystery: is the woman depicted in these fashion plates the same model? I have been trying to determine if models were used by the artists who created fashion plate engravings or if they drew them from imagination. Both date from 1820. Both appeared in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts.

Here is the face: Whoever she was, she was certainly lovely.