I rather like this etching by N Brett, entitled “Foppish Insignificance, Coquettish Allurements” and published in March 1795: The print appears at the Lewis Walpole… Read More »Foppish Insignificance, Coquettish Allurements – 1795 fashions
The date: 18 November 1799 The cartoonist: James Gillray The Title: French Taylor fitting JOHN BULL with a Jean de Bry Background: English opposition to… Read More »Freedom – French style.
In what I think passes as humour in the early 1800s (or maybe the writer was simply a sexist male) I offer my ancestor’s “Model… Read More »A Ladies Dressing Case – a man’s view.
A rather splendid but anonymous cartoon held by the V&A is entitled “Fashionable Information for Ladies in the Country”. It dates from 1795. The caption explains… Read More »Andy Pandy eat your heart out!
When I was hawking the manuscript of The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman around different publishers I asked why I was being turned down. I… Read More »Batty Langley – Batty by name, batty by nature.
Two etchings under the heading “Fashions a little before 1800” appeared at Akermans Gallery at 101 Strand in London in 1800. They each show fashions… Read More »Fashions a little before 1800
Keeping caged birds appears to have been popular in the Eighteenth Century – at least if my ancestor’s diaries are anything to go by. He… Read More »Make mine a canary…
“Belle’s and beaus, or, A scene in Hyde Park : the little dog bark’d to see such sport-shaming an honest nation”. This print by William… Read More »Fashions in Hyde Park, 1814
The Third of September 1736 saw a botched double hanging at Gallows Acre, St Michael’s Hill Bristol. Joshua Harding had been sentenced to death for… Read More »The Curious Case of Vernon and Harding – both hanged this day 1736, but lived to tell the tale.