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قراءة كتاب Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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Born in 1745; died in 1801. He was a son of the great Jonathan Edwards, and was President of Union College, Schenectady, 1799-1801. This portrait shows the fashion of dressing the hair when wigs and powder had been banished and the hair hung lank and long in the neck.
Born in Virginia, 1736; died in Charlotte County, Va., in 1799. An orator, patriot, and a leader in the American Revolution. He organized the Committees of Correspondence, was a member of Continental Congress, 1774, of the Virginia Convention, 1775, and was governor of Virginia for several terms. This portrait shows him in lawyer's close wig and robe.
Died, 1732.
JUDGE BENJAMIN LYNDE, OF SALEM AND BOSTON, MASS
Died, 1745. Painted by Smybert.
Born, Charleston, S.C., 1739; died, 1800. He was member of Congress, governor of South Carolina, chief justice of Supreme Court. His hair is tied in cue.
CAMPAIGN, RAMILLIES, BOB, AND PIGTAIL WIGS
From an engraving by Copley, his only engraving.
Born in London, 1709. Came to America in 1731. Married Mary Johnson in 1736. Made Judge of the Admiralty in 1741. Died in 1751. He was the father of Francis the Signer. This portrait is believed to be by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
A Connecticut clergyman.
Born, 1754; died, 1820. A Maryland gentleman of wealth and position.
Bishop of Hereford, Eng.
Born, 1483; died, 1577, aged ninety-four years. Yeoman of the Guard and usher to Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. His beard is unique.
Worn by Alexander Ross, 1655.
Cathedral beard.
Born in London, 1527; died, 1608. An English mathematician, astrologer, physician, author, and magician. He wrote seventy-nine books, mostly on magic. His "pique-a-devant" beard might well "a man's eye out-pike."
IRON AND LEATHER PATTENS, 1760
Owned by author.
In Museum of Bucks County Historical Society, Penn.
Drawing from Chopines in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The tallest chopine had a sole about nine inches thick.
These clogs are of silk brocade, and were made to match brocade slippers. The one with pointed toe would fit the brocaded shoes of the year 1760. The other has with it a high-heeled, black satin slipper of the year 1780, to show how they were worn. They forced a curious shuffling step.
About 1780. Owned by Bucks County Historical Society.
This group, consisting of the artist, John Singleton Copley, his wife, who was formerly a young widow, Susannah Farnham; his wife's father, Richard Clarke, a most respected Boston merchant who was wealthy until ruined by the War of the Revolution; and the four little Copley children. Elizabeth is between four and five; John Singleton, Jr., is the boy of three, who afterwards became Lord Lyndhurst; Mary is aged two, and an infant is in the grandfather's arms. Copley was born in 1737, and must have been about thirty-seven when this was painted in 1775. It is deemed by many his masterpiece. The portrait is owned by Mr. Amory, but is now in the custody of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It is most pronounced, almost startling, in color, every tint being absolutely frank.
WEDDING SLIPPERS AND BROCADE STRIP, 1712
Owned by Mrs. Thomas Robinson Harris, of Scarboro on the Hudson, N.Y.
Owned by Lord Fairfax of Virginia.
A Portsmouth gentleman. This portrait is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
They are shoe-buckles, breeches-buckles, garter-buckles, stock-buckles. Some are cut silver and gold; others are cut steel; some are paste. Some of these were owned by Dr. Edward Holyoke, of Salem, and are now owned by Miss Susan W. Osgood, of Salem, Mass.
Worn in 1760 by granddaughter of Governor Simon Bradstreet. Owned by Miss Mary S. Cleveland, of Salem, Mass. Their make and finish are curious; they have paste buckles.
Painted by Copley in Europe. Owned by Miss Annette Rogers, of Boston, Mass.
Worn by Mrs.