#1820s

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Cobalt Silk Evening Gown

1820s

Augusta Auctions

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Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865) "Allegory with Skull" (1824) Oil on canvas

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REESE WITHERSPOON as BECKY SHARP

VANITY FAIR (2004)

dir. mira nair

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Les Heures de la Nuit, costume design from 1720, print from 1821, Francois Seraphin Delpeche and Hippolyte Lecomte

From Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820,

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1820s suit I made over last year. The coat in particular was a huge undertaking that lasted several months.

All of these were patterned by me, the coat and trousers from The Tailor's Preceptor by Hadfield.

I made the trousers early in the summer last year and never got around to pictures till now (whoops). They're a cotton I got from Fabric Mart. Mix of hand and machine stitch.

The white waistcoat is a silk shantung and linen I got second hand. Almost entirely stitched by hand (I got lazy on the pocket bags)

During my internship/independent study I studied an original coat from aprox. 1825-1829 in a local museum, took a pattern off of it (counting stitches and all), then altered it to fit me. It was really close circumference wise! Just way too tall. It was entirely hand stitched. I couldn't understate how pleased I am with the whole outfit, but especially the coat, especially in comparison to just how far I've come since my first suit only 4 years prior. The

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Zacarías González Velázquez (Spanish, 1763–1834), "Manuela González Velázquez tocando el piano" (detail), ca. 1820

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Title: Winter at the Sognefjord Artist: Johan Christian Dahl (Norwegian, 1788-1857) Date: 1827 Genre: landscape Movement: Romanticism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 61.5 cm (24.2 in) high x 75.5 cm (29.7 in) wide Location: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

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The Ornithologist 🪶