Property of a Lady: 18th Century Costume, Mourning and Art in a Neoclassical Miniature
Because we’re revisiting some fashion this week, let’s take another look at this spectacular miniature: Let me begin today’s lesson…
Knowing Your Fashion, Mourning Fashion in the 17th-19th Centuries
Often, it’s the simplest things that help us understand a time, place or even a piece of jewellery. Jewellery in…
For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
Once in a while a man comes into your life and things just seem better somehow. I don’t know his…
Mourning Silk Art
From Barbara Robbins comes this wonderful piece and an equally wonderful story! “There is an interesting story behind this silk…
Property of a Lady: 18th Century Costume, Mourning and Art in a Neoclassical Miniature
This piece is pained on ivory, measured 1.75 (4.3cm) by 2.25 (6.8cm) inches (loop excluded), set in rose gold. We have a young woman looking up to the cherub carrying the scroll with the writing ‘TO BLISS’, behind her is the willow (gief) and to the distance are the cypress trees pointing their way towards the heavens. In front, we have urn resting on a plinth with ‘SACRED TO THE BEST OF FRIENDS’. All this is painted in hushed sepia tones, except for the cherub and female. On the reverse, we have tightly woven hairwork.
The Burns Archive: Dressed to Distress
Rather than write a myriad of superlatives about how magnificent the Burns Archive is, I’d rather let you all discover…
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