 He was not only consulted for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, etc., but for plate, for a barge, for a cradle. And so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birthday gowns. The...  THE MONTHLY REVIEW. - Page 192by SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781Full view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole, George Vertue - 1786 - 360 pages
...-for a cradle. And fo impetuous was fafhion, that two great ladies prevailed on him to make defigns for their birth-day gowns. The one he drefled in a...in a copper-coloured fattin with ornaments of gold. He was not more happy in other works in which he mifapplied his genius. The gilt rails to the hermitage... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 pages
...that two great ladies prevailed on " him to make designs for their birth-day gowns. The one he dressed in " a petticoat decorated with columns of the five orders; the other like a " bronze, in copper-coloured sattin, with ornaments of gold." Walpoles Anecdotes, 2d ed. iv. 239PLATE III. IN the... | |
 | 1820 - 746 pages
...that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for tbeir birth-day gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five...orders ; the other like a bronze, in a copper-coloured sattin, with ornaments of gold. His style of ornaments, if we may judge from those that have been published,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pages
...that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birth-day gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five orders ; the other like a bronze, in a copper- coloured sattin, with ornaments of gold. His style of ornaments, if we may judge from those... | |
 | 1820 - 742 pages
...that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birth-day gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five orders ; the other like a bronze, in a c»pper- coloured sattin, with ornaments of gold. His style of ornaments, if we may judge from those... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 400 pages
...that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birth-day gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five...orders : the other like a bronze in a coppercoloured satin with ornaments of gold." His numerous avocations, his high pretensions, and the blaze of patronage... | |
 | 1834 - 730 pages
...two great Lullt;.-, prevailed on him to make designs for their birth-day guwns; the one he dressed in a petticoat, decorated with columns of the five...orders; the other, like a bronze, in a copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold." Among the principal works which Kent executed as a painter, were, the... | |
 | 740 pages
...that he was even beset by certain fine ladies to design birthday gowns for them: "The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five...orders ; the other, like a bronze, in a copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold." Claremont, the charming home of the exiled Orleans family, shows vestiges... | |
 | 1867 - 738 pages
...that he was even beset by certain fine ladies to design birthday gowns for them : " The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five...orders; the other, like a bronze, in a copper-coloured Safin, with ornaments of gold." Claremont, the charming home of the exiled Orleans family, shows vestiges... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...ladies prevailed upon him to make designs for their birthday gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat with columns of the five orders ; the other like a bronze, in copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold." I have surveyed; and that I might not lose the impressions... | |
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