It’s actually Kate

🪡 Russia.

Ball dress, early 1800s.
Cambric with gold metallic thread embroidery.

© collection the State Hermitage.

Some insights into 18th-century festive traditions and innovations from Penny Corfield, among them the very term 'Boxing Day', coined by the Georgians in honour of the 'Christmas boxes' offered up with gifts of money in them.
#skystorians

Both white with black silhouettes. Larger mug with George III shows him in profile, a gilded ribbon below with the motto INTEGRITY and a gold formal border around the rim of the mug. Smaller mug: Queen Chrlotte in profile, flanked by ribbons bearing the motto VIRTUE'S HER SHIELD. In generally good condition, but gilding worn in places. Did not bid.

Porcelain mugs with silhouette decoration (King George III on one, Queen Charlotte on the other), c 1805-10, at Bonhams, London #c18th #c18 #18thc

For the Seventeenth Day of Advent, we have a Louis XIV ormolu-mounted, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, brass and pewter-inlaid Boulle marquetry casket, ca. 1700.

Through the round window: Looking up from inside Sir John Soane’s Tivoli Corner, Bank of England, London EC2.

Its an election day at Covent Garden #London 1818 with candidates standing on a covered platform built in front of St. Paul's Church, amidst a hive of activity throughout surrounding market area
(Scharf)

The lovely cobbled street and shopfronts of Cheapside as viewed from Foster Street in 1818 by Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie (1781-1847), an English painter with a penchant for the topography of #London

Born #OnThisDay in 1815 was mathematician Ada Lovelace. She is known for her work on the Analytical Engine with mathematician Charles Babbage, an early proposed mechanical computer for which she wrote one of the first algorithms.

British.

Silk cape with the sweetest embroidery, 1795-1800.

Grasshoppers and trees, bees and their hives, even a hammock. Just so pretty.
© & collection The Met Museum
#Embroidery

This satire published May 1818 claims to be the last work of James Gillray. It features the irony of judges and magistrates getting shaved and cleaned before donning godawful old wigs to preside in court

Giacomo Ceruti (Italian, Milan 1698–1767 Milan)

A woman with a dog, 1740s.

© The Met Museum

Henry Fuseli ( Johann Heinrich Füssli) (1741-1825)

His Best Known Work, The Nightmare, 1781

Collection Detroit Institute of Arts.

#Romanticism

The Ladies Waldegrave, Joshua Reynolds, 1780-1781

Painting of a woman in her 30s, wearing elaborate 18th-century clothing. Her hair is powdered grey and piled high in a fashionable style, she wears pearl earrings and a pearl necklace, and a frilly lilac dress with white cuffs and collar, sitting on a pink chair with drapery behind and a crown in the background.

Look out for a new post coming from the Georgian Lords tomorrow, when we will be welcoming @nemgarrett.bsky.social as a guest writer for the series, looking into Queen Charlotte and her reputation at the time of the Regency Crisis.
#skystorians #HistParl

Painted by Mme Bunel with a border of three gilt-edged medallions enclosing a rose and star motif connected by swags of blue cornflowers, the yellow ground with scattered pink flower sprays, the feet and handle heightened in gilding. Interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter ii in blue, painter's mark mb for Bunel (one foot restored, haircrack)

Yellow-ground Sèvres milk jug (pot à lait à trois pieds), dated 1786, Bonhams, London #c18th #c18 #18thc

A male mannequin featuring the red wool coat.

Close up view of the red coats buttons side and a partial view of the sleeve cuff with its buttons, same type button but smaller in size, we also see parts of a waistcoat of white color with blue, red narrow stripes.

Close up of one button, needlework button, it is made of embroidery threads worked and woven for hand to cover a base button or disc, the base isn’t visible. The color is reddish orange, lighter in color than fabric. Not sure if it is as intended or if it was more matched to the deep red of coat but faded.

Coat

Circa 1787-1792, France

Source: The Met, www.metmuseum.org/ar...
#fashionhistory #18thcentury

That Sinking Feeling
Gillray's take on the perils of new-fangled diving machines
#London June 19th 1801

Upright rectangular form, printed in black with bust-length portraits of King George III and Queen Charlotte, 4 small vignettes of figures and rural landscape, and diaper pattern across the hinged lid, a glass scent bottle and stopper inside

Upright rectangular form, printed in black with bust-length portraits of King George III and Queen Charlotte, 4 small vignettes of figures and rural landscape, and diaper pattern across the hinged lid, a glass scent bottle and stopper inside

Enamel scent bottle case depicting King George III and Queen Charlotte (Birmingham, c1765), with Bonhams, London #c18th #c18 #18thc

Mannequin of a man wearing 1750s fashion - jacket, waistcoat and breeches made of woven silk brocade, all same fabric, unembellished. The brocade is cream and some red color, the source say cerise but it looks not vibrant to me. The abstract motif is symmetrical and consists of waves of some kind and flowers. There’s also a hat, ribbons on hair, shoes, walking stick and an sword of some kind (I’m sorry I don’t have much knowledge on swords!)

Suit - coat, waistcoat and breeches

Circa 1750, likely England

Source: V&A, collections.vam.ac.u...

#fashionhistory #18thcentury

The Three Dis-Graces
Gillray showing there is nothing like a stiff breeze to ruin the classical Muse, as three somewhat disheveled women discover when posing (a bit too naturally) in Kensington Gardens #London (1810)

Sweet Caroline
When a sailor faced the lash for peeking up Princess Caroline's dress as she descended a ladder onto a ship in Greenwich c.1800 - she begged for him to be spared since it was 'only natural to wonder if a royal c*nt was different from a common or garden one'

Here’s a map of c.1830 showing both London Bridges coexisting. This is why the church of St Magnus-the-Martyr (which formed the northern gateway to the medieval bridge) is misaligned with the current bridge. See my blog post at:
historylondon.org/magnus-monum...

Candles are already lit at my home on this gloomy December day. Extra layers, reading and card games by the fire, December 1781. Print from a set of 12 from The British Museum

Pinch Punch! Wishing all of my followers a happy & healthy December! Print from set of twelve fashion plates, 1749 via The British Museum

The Oyster Woman
A lovely portrait of Miss Morland standing behind a barrel of oysters and opening a shell under the light of a lantern #London (1769)

Stone Me!
Look at all them luvverly cockneys walking abaht rahnd by St Mary le Bow Church, Cheapside - whose bells signify their spritual (and geographical) home #London c.1770

Nice one!
Don’t miss ‘Dressing the officer’ and cheer for more
#18thcentury

🪡 Pretty in Pink Hooded CApe & Muff, 1780-1810


Handwoven silk fabric in satin weave edged with fur, lining of silk fabric in double-strand weave in the cape and silk twill in the sleeve, intermediate lining of wool batting, silk ribbon, hand stitching.

Collection & ©️ National Museum of Norway

Working Mother
A fascinating portrait of a woman breast-feeding her baby whilst she carries a bundle of rush outside a Furniture repair shop in Soho Square - as featured in 'Cries of London' (1804) revealing that the struggle faced by mothers in the workplace is not a new one

🪡 Manteau, c.1720.

Handwoven silk fabric in compound weave with brocade, details in linen, wool and metal thread fabrics in double-strand weave, breast cloth with trimming decoration, embroidery and lace in gilded metal thread, metal weights, hand-sewn.

Collection & ©️ Nat Museum of Norway