Regency Household: Design for an Italian Villa

The design and description appeared in Domestic Architecture: Being a Series of Designs for Mansions, Villas, Rectory Houses, Parsonage Houses, Bailiffs’ Lodge, Gardener’s Lodge, Game-keeper’s Lodge, Continue →

Regency Fashion: Summer Ball Dress and Afternoon Home Dress (1828)

Plate and description appeared in the September 1828 edition of The Ladies’ Monthly Museum. Bringing the heat with another gravity defying hairstyle. How much do Continue →

Regency Fashion: The Invisible

In my recent study of Gillray’s prints, I revisited Les Invisibles (c. 1810). This print explores French Empire inspired fashions satirically, exposing the strange Francophilia Continue →