Antique Tears: Consumptive Chic
Kate Retford, 3 December 2020
Emma Hart, on the right, dancing the tarantella with a friend (1796).
In the 1770s, Ann Frankland Lewis began producing watercolour paintings of fashionable women’s dress. She continued creating these images for more than thirty years, charting the extraordinary changes that were taking place. They meticulously chronicle the demise of the early 18th-century mantua dress: the...
