We're back! Two busy days have passed, and I'm back on schedule.
I though today we'd look at "Fancy Dress." So, let's get started with one of my favorite watercolors from The Royal Collection Trust.
Queen Victoria in Costume for The 1745 Fancy Ball June 6, 1845 Commissioned by the Queen for her Portrait Album Watercolor over Pencil Crown Collection The Royal Collection |
Queen Victoria was so pleased with her Eighteenth-Century-inspired gown that she commissioned several portraits to be painted of herself wearing the costume. In her journal entry for that night, she even drew a small sketch of the gown. Though our mental picture of Victoria is of the stoop-shouldered widow in black, we must remember that this was a woman who was once young and in love—a woman who very much enjoyed life.
Crown Copyright The Royal Collection Images Courtesy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II via The Royal Collection Trust |
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