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 Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Page 297by Allan Cunningham - 1831Full view - About this book
| SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pages
...that two great ladies prevailed on him to make deiigns for their birthday gowns. The one he drefled in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five...orders; the other like a bronze, in a copper-coloured fattin, with ornaments of gold. ' Such of the drawings as he defigned for Gay's fables, have fome truth... | |
| Horace Walpole, George Vertue - 1786 - 360 pages
...that two great ladies prevailed on him to make defigns for their birth-day gowns. The one he drefled in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five...orders : the other like a. bronze, in a copper-coloured fattin with ornaments of gold. He was not more happy in other works in which he mifapplied his genius.... | |
| William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 pages
...furniture, as frames " of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, &c. but for plate, for a barge, for a " cradle. So impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pages
...for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, but for plate, a barge, a cradle ; and so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed...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
...for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, but for plate, a barge, a cradle ; and so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pages
...for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, but for plate, a barge, a cradle ; and so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed...gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with coluipns of the five orders ; the other like a bronze, in a c»pper-coloured sattin, with ornaments... | |
| 1820 - 746 pages
...for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, but for plate, a barge, a cradle ; and so impetuous was fashion, 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... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, &c., but for plate, for a- barge, for a cradle. And so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed...petticoat decorated with columns of the five orders, and the other like a bronze, in a copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold." The unsparing ridicule... | |
| 1834 - 730 pages
...was laühion, that two great Lullt;.-, prevailed on him to make designs for their birth-day guwns; the one he dressed in a petticoat, decorated with...a copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold." Among the principal works which Kent executed as a painter, were, the hall at Wünstead House; the... | |
| John Gould - 1835 - 430 pages
...as frames of pictures, glasses, chairs, &c., but for plate, for a barge, and even for a eradle. And so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed...dressed in a petticoat, decorated with columns of five orders; the other like a bronze, in coppercoloured satin, with ornaments of gold. He was not more... | |
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