18th Century Love

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1790s

France

This young man’s tailcoat, with its high turned-down collar, narrow back, and wide lapels, exemplifies the exaggerated silhouette fashionable in post-revolutionary France. Striped textiles, modish from the 1760s, were ubiquitous in the dress of both sexes by the end of the century. In menswear, stripes served as a decorative substitute for the ornate, polychrome embroidery of earlier suits. The trend reflects the influence of the Islamic world and neoclassical taste; in earlier centuries, stripes had pejorative connotations in the West and were associated with the clothing of socially marginalized groups.

Armchair

c.1720

France

1711 Carlo Frasa - Portrait of Elena Visconti Borromeo

ab. 1723 Attr. to Antoine Pesne - The dancer Marianne Cochois

▪︎Chess set.

Artist/Maker: Johann Joachim Kändler  (1706-1775)

Manufacturer: Meissen porcelain factory

~ Wax model of a decomposing body in a walnut coffin.

Date: 1774-1800

The New Practical Navigator,was the most popular navigational text of the late 18th century and was written by John Hamilton Moore 1795

Botanical illustrations taken from ‘Recueil de Plantes Coloriees’ by  Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Published 1789 by Libraire Poincot.

Missouri Botanical Garden.

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ab. 1702 Possibly Jonathan Richardson the Elder - Abigail Bayly, Lady Elton

Mariner’s Compass, by Reverend Jonathan Fisher, from his Mathematics notebook, 1791