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" 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 297
by Allan Cunningham - 1831
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW.

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...
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Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the ..., Volume 4

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....
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Hogarth Restored: The Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth, as ...

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...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 9

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...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 9

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...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 9

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...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 9

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...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 1

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...
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The Georgian Era: Political and rural economists. Painters, sculptors ...

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...
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Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Artists: Comprising Painters ..., Volume 1

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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