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Fashion and Fun in 1797


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What's Up in 1797

Links to Other Sites on 1797, last verified 4/25/4; Last Update of this page 4/28/4

See Wikipedia's 1797 Page and the 1797 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1797 Page as does Jack Lynch

Some sites of interest are (1) on the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, February 14, 1797 (2) an essay on Chortitza Census of October 14, 1797 (3) 1797 Farm in Maine (4) Temecula, CA, History

See a plate from The Natural History of British Insects (Vol. VI, 1797) or A 1797 Map of North America

Read texts of 1797, such as Martha Ballad's Diary, 1797; Uniform Regulations (Navy, 1797); John Adam's Inaugural Address; Treaty with the Mohawk; First Annual Message of John Adams

Stay at a inn open since 1797, The Wayside Inn of Middletown, VA. Other inns or B&B built in 1797: (1) The 1797 Inn West Wardsboro, VT (2) The Inn at Freeman Elms Farm New Marlborough, MA (3) Historic Cashtown Inn Cashtown, PA [which claims to be haunted!]

You can eat, but not stay at The 1797 Depuy Canal House High Falls, NY, or buy products made by companies in business since 1797: (1) Paxton & Whitfield's Cheese (2) Birkett's Buckwheat Bread (3) Zuber & Compagnie's Wallpaper (4) Shorts of Whitburn's Lawnmowers (5) Hindes' Hairbrushes (6) Puddicombe Farm's Fruits

Novels of 1797

Hannah Foster. The Coquette.

Harriet Lee and Sophia Lee. The Canterbury Tales. (Parts reprinted by Pandora Press)

Eliza Parsons. An Old Friend with a New Face: a Novel

Ann Radcliffe. The Italian. (Available from Oxford University Press)

Jane West. A Gossip's Story. (Reprinted in Garland Publications' Feminist Controversy in England Series)

Portraits of 1797

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Princess Galitzin (c. 1797) by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (Baltimore Museum of Art, Mary Frick Jacobs Collection) Princess Youssoupoff (1797) by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (Private Collection) Countess Schouvalof, Elizabeth Vladmirovna by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun

Maria Lopukhina
Portrait of Maria Lopukhina
by Vladimir Borovikovsky
Copyright of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Dresses of 1797 from The Gallery of Fashion

See also these issue pages: January 1797 March 1797 April 1797 May 1797 September 1797

The 1797 edition of The Lady's Magazine

Dress of 1797 from Journal des Luxus und der Moden

Dress of 1797 from Journal des Dames et des Modes

1797 Dess 1797 Walking Dress
Plate no. 13 This appears to be an evening dress. Women's dress, 1797, plate 8. "Capote Anglaise, garnie en Crepe Bandeau de Velourz, Guilloche en Or, Petit `fichu croise.'" This appears to be a walking dress.

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