Dr Natalee Garrett
@nemgarrett.bsky.social
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Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/nataleegarrett.historian.
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My author copies arrived, so I had to do a photoshoot! 3 years of hard work condensed into 378 pages 📖

'Queen Charlotte: Family, Duty, Scandal' is now available from @routledgehistory and all good booksellers!

#historysky #royalhistory #18thcentury #skystorians #queencharlotte
Photograph of a woman smiling and holding a book. Background is a cream wall with panelling. The woman has brown hair and wears a purple jumper with a black skirt. Photograph of a book, with a stack of six books behind. The book cover is a portrait painting of a woman in a wide gold and white dress, with a red curtain behind her. The book cover has blue detailing around the text: 'Queen Charlotte: Family, Duty, Scandal. Natalee Garrett.' The books rest on blue fabric and behind them is a cushion decorated with an 18th-century painting of a woman in a silver dress, with two children and a dog at her feet.
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nguthrie.bsky.social
Thomas Patch, The Golden Asses (1761), Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Conn. #c18th #c18 #18thc
Large conversation piece of grand tourists (the asses of the title) in a ballroom hung with green silk wallpaper and portraits. Chequeboard marble floor in brown, white and black. Patch has depicted himself at the right, brandishing his palette and brush, astride a life-sized sculpture of a golden ass. In the foreground, a dog plays on the edge of collection of silver and silver gilt vessels placed on the marble floor. The picture is in the reading room at the Lewis Walpole.
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monalunasimone.bsky.social
Fashion plate from 1786 showing a woman in a pink Peking caraco with white Peking skirt and bodice. The light coloured ensemble is contrasted by a large black hat topped with white ostrich feathers. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum. #FashionPlateFriday #18thc #dresshistory
Close up of the fashion zoomed in on the (amazing!) pink jacket and hat. Can't remember seeing an 18th century jacket like this in a plate before. Seems like reverted v-shape open front? And then that row of bows, seen on gowns, but on jackets??? Full description from the Rijksmuseum website in second picture. Woman facing right, wearing a pink Peking caraco, with a white Peking skirt and bodice. Caraco in a new form: cut out at the bottom and trimmed with white ribbon. Skirt and bodice trimmed with pink ribbon. On her head is a straw hat with a thick black crepe soubise around the crown. Decorated with five white feathers. Fichu and chemise. Accessories: elongated earrings, white gloves, and a walking stick. Print from the fashion magazine "Journal des Luxus und der Moden," published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus, Weimar, 1786-1826. Object number: BI-1967-1159A-29
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
The value of cloth was such, in the past, that recycling was a regular feature of sartorial life. Silk brocade worn in the 18th century has been completely repurposed here to fit the fashionable silhouette of the #1820s, too precious not to reuse #nasjonalmuseet #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A front and back view of a pale blue floral silk brocade dress with high waist and long sleeves that have a puff at the shoulder. It is fuller at the back and has a ruffle at the hem
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rhwhite.bsky.social
A porcelain snuff box with hinged gilt silver mounts manufactured at Mennecy circa 1750. In the shape of a recumbent dog with suckling puppy painted in brown and red and with a spray of flowers on the exterior and interior of the lid. Sweet.
MARKS
Several obscured discharge marks on the silver mount.


MEASUREMENTS
Length: 3” (7.6 cm); height: 1 5/8” (4.1 cm); depth: 1 3/4” (4.5 cm).
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Doll's coat of wool lined with silk, made in #London, 1690-1700. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
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amyjanieh.bsky.social
Royals are notoriously hard to buy for. What do you get people who have everything? When in doubt, do what Admiral Boscawen did in April 1750 for Frederick, Prince of Wales and get the royal in your life a 476lb tortoise. 🐢

#18thCentury #Hanoverians #Georgians
Newspaper clipping from April 1750 reading: Yesterday, a tortoise weighing 476lb was carried up to Kew as a present from Admiral Boscawen to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
nemgarrett.bsky.social
I dropped out of GCSE History because my 14-year-old self found the course content so boring and male-centric. Coming back to #History in uni was a revelation. The content of school curriculums really does influence who gets to engage with the past.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Research by the group End Sexism in Schools found that women were largely absent from history taught in key stage 3, the first three years of secondary education in England. Monarchs were among only a handful of women mentioned by name alongside...Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison.' 2/2
End Sexism In Schools - Working for education free of sexism
End Sexism in Schools is working for a UK education system free of sexism that allows all children to fulfil their potential.
endsexisminschools.org.uk
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
At first glance this appears to be a very conventional robe à la française, a #1750s riot of florals and rococo swirls. Peep closer and you can see that the ribbon motifs are actually leopard print, a trend that never wanes #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of the top half of a 1750s cream silk floral brocade robe a la francaise with the broad pleat running from the back of the neck to the floor. The floral pattern is surrounded by swirls of ribbon motifs A detail of the fabric of the 1750s gown showing the multi coloured floral bouquets and the leopard print ribbon motifs
nemgarrett.bsky.social
George III & Queen Charlotte married #OnThisDay 1761. Charlotte's wedding gown was so elaborate and jewel-studded that it tugged down her ill-fitting bodice. Horace Walpole remarked 'the spectators knew as much of her upper half as the King himself.' A fashion disaster!

#queencharlotte #18thcentury
'The Marriage of George III' by Joshua Reynolds (1761). A sketched image of a wedding ceremony in a chapel with red and gold hangings. In the middle of the scene stand the bride and groom (George III & Queen Charlotte) wearing white and silver garments. The groom holds the bride's right hand in his right hand, and a minister stands between them. In the foreground of the image, on both sides, stand rows of spectators/wedding guests, also lavishly dressed. The floor is plan and the image is clearly an unfinished work, possibly a preparatory sketch. Now in Royal Collection Trust.
nemgarrett.bsky.social
Love these 😍 I've been writing about Charlotte's depictions in visual and material culture during her reign...may have to give these a mention!

#queencharlotte #18thcentury
amrevmuseum.bsky.social
💍 #OnThisDay in 1761, George William Frederick and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz married. Two weeks later they were crowned King George III and Queen Charlotte of Great Britain. This tea canister commemorates their 1761 coronation.

See it on your visit: https://bit.ly/34CiSxy
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
I do love a pinked edge and a complex sleeve. This is a favourite, the detail of a #1760s lightly sprinkled floral brocade gown, pleated and ruffled in primrose yellow @chertseymuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
The sleeve detail of a 1760s primrose yellow brocade gown focusing on the scallop edged pinked cuffs in double layers with pleats on the sleeve and the seams at the back of the bodice and waistband
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
Fashion satire is illuminating. It shows those very exaggerations which we find curious today were subject to critique in their own time. Here late 1820s/early 1830s is on show through a blue carriage dress a cartoon by William Heath @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A mannequin wearing a blue silk dress with long full sleeves and a broad long skirt. It has a self coloured belt A fashion satire of a blue dress with huge sleeves  and a triangular skirt. She is wearing a beribboned hat
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
Redolent of a summer meadow teeming with colour and life, the high blue sky behind, this blue brocade gown was worn as a wedding dress by Helena Slicher in 1759. Such gowns were a canvas on which to show off the skill & expense of the brocade weavers’ art @rijksmuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Front view of a mannequin wearing a pale blue silk mantua showing the incredibly broad hip paniers that extend across the front revealing the multicoloured floral brocade design. It has a square neckline and flounced elbow cuffs
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georgianlords.bsky.social
Attending George II's coronation in 1727 wasn't cheap. Lady Foley was said to be spending more than £400 on new robes, though one correspondent suggested there was a reason for the extra outlay:
'she will want indeed for her circumference some more yards of velvet and ermine than other ladies'
nemgarrett.bsky.social
Not that I'm aware of, I'm afraid.
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bows4crows.bsky.social
Dinner dress, British, 1824

Look, I don't entirely know what to make of this, but its gotta be the most festive dress I've ever seen. A lot of historic influences at play, and the red, white and holly give it a really fun, mid-Winter vibe.

#fashionhistory #ootd #dresshistory #TheMet
Image 1. 
Mannequin wearing a full length dinner dress.
The dress is in pure white cotton and silk, with wool detailing. It has a broad scoop neckline, lined with a strip of red silk. Capped sleeves with red detailing and strips of red silk at the cuff. The waist is high, with a broader band of red silk. 
The hem of the skirt is really interesting. There is a band of red fabric a few inches above the hem, with further strips extending to the hem, which are gathering the hem into distinct puffed segments, each about 4 inches across.
Above the red band are a number of wool embroidered holly boughs, in green and red. Image 2.
Close up of the hem of the skirt from image. Shows more clearly the puffed fabric at the hem, and the wool embroidered holly bough.
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nemgarrett.bsky.social
Me, every time I start a chapter or article: This is a big word count, I definitely won't need to use it all.

Me, half-way through writing: Hmm, I have more to say about this than I thought...

Me, when I'm done writing: Okay, this is fine. Really, I only need to shave off 4000 words...😭
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rhwhite.bsky.social
On this date in 1771 the Sèvres porcelain manufactory delivered a dinner service of 322 pieces to Madame du Barry. It was decorated with the floral cypher "D B" in the center of the well of the plates and with swags and urns; here's a soup bowl from that service now in the Art Institute of Chicago.
From the Art Institute of Chicago website:

Soup Plate from a service for Madame du Barry, 1771
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painted by Nicolas Bulidon (French, active 1763–92)


Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding (4.5×24.2cm(13/4×91/2in.)
Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.
1994.401
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
A man's night gown, 1690-1720, Dutch or English; of Chinese blue silk damask, 1650-1700

(V&A Museum, London)
nemgarrett.bsky.social
Me, every time I start a chapter or article: This is a big word count, I definitely won't need to use it all.

Me, half-way through writing: Hmm, I have more to say about this than I thought...

Me, when I'm done writing: Okay, this is fine. Really, I only need to shave off 4000 words...😭