A Debutante's wardrobe for 1787

细节

A Debutante's wardrobe for 1787
eight mannequin drawings coloured in wash inscribed 1787 nos 1-8 six with hats similarly inscribed, no. 1 inscribed morning jacket and no 6 inscribed slight mourning have no hats, no. 8 is inscribed court dress, and another dress and hat also inscribed 1787; and a dummy--the dummy 5in. (12.5cm.) high, 1787
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来源

Probably the dresses of Miss Harriet Johnson (d.1823) who married in 1795 Sir John Hamilton-Dalrymple, late the 8th Earl of Stair.
These remained in the possession of her sister Maria Johnson of Wistastowe, Salop. and Kenilworth and passed with her aunt Miss Barbara Johnson's album of dress samples - now in the Victoria and Albert Museum - to the Rev. C.T. Johnson, great-great-grandfather of W.J. Blois Johnson who sold them at Christie's, July 18, 1973, lot 175.

拍品专文

English 18th century dress designs are most rare. Apart from the Johnson designs, only those for the wife of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy and the Spencer Stanhope family are known. All have been sold by Christie's in the last 25 years.