The Regency Wardrobe collection
The Garments:
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Dressed for
a ball,
inspired
by a battle:
Title: The bird waltz for the piano forte or harp
Contributor Names: Panormo, Francesco -- 1764-1844
Created / Published:1820, monographic.
Published by G. E. Blake, 13 South 5th Street, [approximately 1820].
To see the original score click here
Played here in a specially commissioned recording by Giorgos Vardakis
Dressed
for
promenading,
wearing white:
click here
to read about
the three
promenading
dresses
"Broadside ballads are best placed in the category of street songs. They were very popular during the Regency and Victorian eras. The street was where people could air grievances, settle business and meet each other." - Jennifer Reid
Sung here in a specially commissioned recording by Jennifer Reid
For more about this commission please click here
Dressed
for a
gathering,
shown in
silhouette:
Click here to read about the five silhouette dresses
The Wall Hangings:
“O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John keats Ode to a Grecian Urn
May 1819
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn
The Accessories
Suspended beauty
Forget-me-not
The Eyes of a
Dragon
Weeping Willow
White Peacock
Parasol
1830's shoe
Wildflowers
Bejewelled
Filigree
Eating Bees