#caraco

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1770-1780 Woman's jacket (caraco) and petticoat (Coromandel Coast (fabric), England (tailored))

cotton

(Victoria and Albert Museum)

[artschoolglasses]

Striped Silk Caraco, French, 1795

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

[achronalart]

This is a pretty 18th century fashion plate, but I wonder if the artist has confused their exotic birds.

That's clearly supposed to be a parrot, but it bears a distinct family resemblance to a turkey, between that neck and the hint of a wattle.

Both parrots and turkeys were status symbols in Europe at the time, a sign of wealth and exotic foreign connections.

ALT text: 1780-1785 fashion plate number 23 from the French publication "Galerie des Modes et Costumes Français”. A woman in powdered hair and curls wears a bright orange jacket edged with transparent white frills and turquoise blue ribbon, over a skirt to match. She stands next to a sort of a wooden coat-rack of bird perches set into a manger or tray and with a bowl at the top, snuggling up to a very odd-looking bird. It is clearly intended to be a parrot, but seems rather overlarge with a more turkey-like neck than the sleek look of a parrot, and its coloration suggests a turkey’s wattle more than a parrot’s plumage.

[galleryofart]

A Party Angling

Artist: George Morland (English, 1763–1804)

Date: 1789

Medium: OIl on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

[iridessence]

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[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Ésta es la única certeza: la muerte es, en una palabra, el sentido de toda cosa y el hombre es una cosa frente a la muerte, los pueblos lo serán de igual forma, la Historia es una pasión y sus víctimas legión, el mundo, que nosotros habitamos, es el Infierno moderado por la nada, donde el hombre, negándose a conocerse, prefiere inmolarse, inmolarse como las especies animales demasiado numerosas, inmolarse como los enjambres de langostas y como los ejércitos de ratas, imaginándose que es más sublime morir, morir innumerable, que reconsiderar finalmente el mundo que habita.»

Albert Caraco: Breviario del caos. Sexto Piso Editorial, pág. 11. México, 2004.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

[silkdamask-blog]

Some lovely to start the weekend... a raspberry quilted caraco and petticoat, 1770s

From the @MuséeGalliera

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Caraco, 1780, France.