#1797

[nemfrog]

Boletus aurantiacus. Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms. v. 1. 1797.

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[ltwilliammowett]

Sword 1798-99

Small swords were items of male jewellery. By the 1750s, their elaborate gold and silver hilts, mounted with precious stones and fine enamelling, were the products of the goldsmith and jeweller rather than the swordsmith. They made fitting rewards for distinguished military and naval service. With their blades tucked away inside scabbards, it was their ostentatious and expensive hilts that carried their thrust.

This sword is inscribed: ‘PRESENTED by the Committee of Merchants &c OF LONDON to LIEUT.T FRANCIS DOUGLAS for his Spirited and active conduct on board His Majesty’s Ship the REPULSE. Ja.s Alms Esq.r Commander during the MUTINY at the NORE in 1797. Marine Society Office, May 1o 1798 } Hugh Inglis Esq.r Chairman’

Francis Douglas was rewarded for his role in suppressing a violent mutiny among sailors at the Nore, a Royal Navy anchorage in the Thames Estuary in 1797. According to an account by an eyewitness, published in The Sheerness Guardian 70 years later, the ship, Repulse, made a 'miraculous' escape from the mutineers reaching shore despite receiving 'as was calculated two hundred shot'.

[artschoolglasses]

Evening Overdress, British, 1797-99

From the Met Museum

[empirearchives]

Banquet offered by the Directory to Napoleon Bonaparte in the Grande Galerie of the Louvre on 20 December 1797. Painted by Hubert Robert and today kept at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Red and Gold Felt Cloak, 1797-1805, French.

Worn by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Royal Collection Trust.

[chic-a-gigot]

Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 25 novembre 1797, (12): Cocarde en feuilles sur un Chapeau à l'Anglaise. Schall uni. Robe froncée à la Coblentz. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

'Chapeau à l'Anglaise' decorated with a cockade of leaves. A plain long scarf around the shoulders. Dress, smocked 'à la Coblentz', with a tied ribbon around the high waist, trimmed with a colored trim. Further accessories: diamond-shaped brooch, flat shoes with pointed toes and round buckles. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Sellèque, Paris, 1797-1839.

[nordleuchten]

But at Last We are out, and I Had the Satisfaction to See the United States take a Part in this Last transaction Where By I am Released With My two friends, and that part of My family Which Was not Under Your immediate protection in the Happy Country where Georges and His excellent friend Have experienced So much kindness—Would to God this family Might for the first time Meet Again at Mount Vernon, and Be Reunited in Your friendly and Paternal Arms

The Marquis de La Fayette to George Washington, October 6, 1797

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 6 October 1797,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-01-02-0338. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1797 – 30 December 1797, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 384–386.] (03/26/2024)

[venustapolis]

Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily (detail) (Joseph Dorffmeister, 1797)

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies (1797) by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

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[nemfrog]

Plate CXVII. Canis. Third edition - Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1797.

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[ltwilliammowett]

USS United States on Patrol, by Patrick O’Brien (1960-)

[artschoolglasses]

1790s British Court Dress, illustrations published in the Gallery of Fashion, vol III, April 1 1796 - March 1 1797

From the Met Museum

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[digitalfashionmuseum]

Fashion Plate, 1797, French.

From Journal des dames et des modes.

Portraying a woman in a blue hat, white cotton dress and pink shawl.

BNF Gallica.

[chic-a-gigot]

Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 3 décembre 1797, (13): Bonnet rond, à très-petit fond, fixé avec un Velours noir. Robe de Peckini Rayé. Fichu-Schall. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Standing woman, seen from the back, wearing a round hat with a very small ball on her head, fastened with a black velvet band. She is wearing a striped 'Peckini' dress. Around the shoulders a fichu or scarf: 'Fichu - Schall'. A handkerchief in the left hand. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Sellèque, Paris, 1797-1839.