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Description: | The style of this dress dates it from the 1780s. The earlier, very ornate, ample court dresses have given place to a fashion altogether more simple and practical. The muslin shawl, very fashionable in the 1780s, indicates a tendency for ladies of the high society to try and look closer to the people. The enormous, high hairstyles from the 1770s have also disappeared. The sitter still has powdered hair (or a wig), but no accessories come to embellish it. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8936... | Go to resource |
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