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Regency Window Treatments: Ackermann Plates

Posted in Architecture, jane austen, Regency Art, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, tagged , , , , on March 26, 2010| 7 Comments »

January, 1815 Drawing Room window treatment

Ah, spring. Time to open the windows and air the rooms … and to consider redecorating. Ackermann’s Repository (1809-1829) didnt just cover fashion. The magazine also featured furniture and embroidery patterns, for example, and window treatments. This is simply a visual post. Enjoy!

1815 window treatment, Ackermann's Repository

1816 Regency dining room curtains, Ackermann's Repository

July, 1820, Window Draperies, Ackermann's Repository

1820 Window Treatment, Ackermann

Wallpaper frieze with drapes, woodcut print on paper, 1800-1820, V&A museum

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Cute Tuesday: A Regency Image of Mother and Child

Posted in art, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged , , on March 23, 2010| 7 Comments »

Jane Austen was born in 1775, the same year as Mrs. Robert Shurlock (born Henrietta Ann Jane Russell). Had Jane married and given birth to a child in 1801, would she have presented as charming a picture as Mrs. Shurlock and her daughter Ann? Both women would have been twenty-six years of age at the time. From this description of Jane, Mrs. Shurlock could well have been a relative, for according to her nephew James Austen-Leigh, his aunt Jane had:

“ full round cheeks, with mouth and nose small and well formed, light hazel eyes, and brown hair forming natural curls close round her face.”

John Russell, the painter and sitter’s father, was known for his skills with pastels, as this image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art clearly demonstrates. Henrietta took lessons from her father and became a talented artist in her own right.

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Sanditon: Jane Austen by the Seaside

Posted in Fashions, Holiday, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged , , , on March 20, 2010| 3 Comments »

I’m a little late for the party, but a full day still remains until Laurel Ann at Austenprose finishes her in-depth tour of Sanditon, Jane Austen’s last, unfinished novel. Click on this page to catch up on all the links and comments and guest posts.

Sea Bathing in Scarborough, 1813

Read more about the seaside and seaside fashions on this blog to round out your knowledge of how the Regency folks enjoyed their seaside excursions:

Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, 1813, is a digitized book about the seaside resort of Scarborough, including color plates.

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Jane Austen’s Music

Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's life, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged , , on March 18, 2010| 5 Comments »

… or music Jane listened to. Recently Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine sent a CD along with the issue. The songs include music popular in Jane’s time. I’ve included this musical number from YouTube: Thomas Arne’s “Where the Bee Sucks”, sung by a young lady named Sarah.

Jane Austen in Vermont has posted the list of songs on a CD that subscribers to Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine received in the last issue.

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A Walk With Jane Austen in Bath

Posted in A Walk With Jane Austen, Architecture, Bath, Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged , , on March 17, 2010| 1 Comment »

This link to the BBC site will lead you to a video of a walk with Amanda Parr through Bath. You will need a Real Player.

Other posts about Bath on this site:

The Comforts of Bath: Thomas Rowlandson

The Viscount and the Toll Keeper’s Daughter: How Thomas Thynne Never Became the Marquess of  Bath

Saving Georgian Bath

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