The Regency World of Lesley-Anne McLeod

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Photographs taken by myself 2024

I'm fascinated by this 1819 wedding dress made of a muslin figured with supplementary thicker warps, which has frilled flounces around most of the armscyes rather than actual sleeves. My feeling is that it would have likely been worn over an undergown (maybe white silk, maybe more opaque cotton percale) that had actual puffed sleeves, which would have held them out for slightly added width at the shoulder.

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(Musée Cognacq-Jay)

HMS Victory by Moonlight, 1802, by Patrick O’Brien (1960-)

Winter Landscape, Caspar David Friedrich, 1811

LACMA (Accession Number: M.67.8.123)

Museum at FIT (Object number: 2007.41.1)

Palais Galliera

The dedication reading ‘Presented by the seamen of His Majesty’s Ship Euryalus to Lieunt Charles Peake; as a token of their esteem and gratitude: XXVIIIth Augst MDCCCXXI’,

Fancy a royal wedding? Napoleon and his second wife, Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, had three of them. They were married in a religious ceremony in Vienna on March 11, 1810, though Napoleon was not present for the occasion. They then had a civil wedding Château de Saint-Cloud on April 1, and another religious wedding on April 2 in Paris. For details of the festivities, see “The Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise.”

Tiara crown, 1820, Italy.

(Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico)

The vessels are set on a cobalt blue glass ground, in an octagonal glazed compartment, within a seed pearl surround. The frigates are inscribed in sepia ink with initials T and PG, for the Spanish ship Terrible and the British ship Prince George, engaged in the Battle of Cape Saint Vincent off the coast of Portugal in 1797, where the British emerged victorious. The carving is in the style of  Stephany and Dresch, ivory sculptors in miniature, active in Britain in the late 18th century.

A ticket to the funeral of Lord Horatio Nelson, 9th of January, 1806 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.