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Acknowledgements

Aileen Ribeiro

The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750 to 1820

~I am indebted to the many art galleries, museums, libraries, and private owners listed in this book, both for their help and advice, and for providing photographs of works of art in their collections.

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Aileen Ribeiro

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Acknowledgements

I am indebted to the many art galleries, museums, libraries, and private owners listed in this book, both for their help and advice, and for providing photographs of works of art in their collections.

I am grateful to Her Majesty the Queen for access to the clothing accounts of George IV in the Royal Archives; to Georges Vigne, curator of the Musée Ingres at Montauban, for the opportunity to make an extensive study of the Ingres drawings there; and to Miriam Stewart of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, for making available the David sketchbooks deposited there.

I wish to acknowledge the help given by the staffs of the British Library, the Departments of Prints and Drawings, and of Manuscripts at the British Museum, the Prints and Drawings Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Archive of the National Portrait Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington, and the Society of Antiquaries.

I would especially like to thank the staff at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, for making my stay there during a brief Visiting Fellowship, such an enjoyable and profitable experience.

I am grateful, for their helpful comments and advice, to Brian Allen, Hugh Belsey, Valerie Cumming, Joanna Marschner, Shelley Tobin and Penelope Ruddock.

At the Courtauld Institute, I would like again to pay tribute to the customary help and efficiency of the staffs of the Libraries, the Photographic Department, and the Photographic Survey of Private Collections.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to record my gratitude to my editor Gillian Malpass for her commitment and professionalism in the realising of this book.

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BOOKThe Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750 to 1820

Aileen Ribeiro

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00308

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Dress is the most fleeting of the arts, subject to the arbitrary dictates of fashion. It is also, however, the art that relates most closely to our lives, both as a reflection of our self-image and, in the words of Louis XIV, as "the mirror of history." This book examines English and French fashion from 1750 to 1820 by studying the art of the period, and it shows how changes in dress reflected social, political, and cultural developments in the two countries.

Closely analyzing a wide range of visual sources—including portraits and history paintings, sculpture, drawings, caricatures, and fashion plates by such artists as Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, David, and Ingres—Aileen Ribeiro describes the development of fashion during this period. She investigates, for example, how English and French attitudes toward formality and informality were reflected in their dress; how revolution and war affected what was worn; how the concept of fashion was brought to a wider audience, partly because of technological advances in the production of textiles and partly because of a new ideology that linked dress and politics in a movement toward democratization; and why by the end of the era French styles dominated women's fashions and English tailoring dominated men's fashions. A large part of the book looks at the different ways that England and France appropriated the dress of the past for a variety of political, social, and cultural reasons, not only in fashion but also in social events, in art, and in official and ceremonial costumes.

This book—the first to cover the history of dress from the point of view of the artist—is essential reading for those interested in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century art or fashion.

Some editorial changes have been made by the author to this electronic version.

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Aileen Ribeiro

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date August 1995 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300062878

EISBN 9780300269598

Illustrations 241

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