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Street Scene by Georg Emmanuel Ortiz.  The British Museum.  They don’t have many details about this print at the British Museum, but my guess is early 1820-1825, based on their clothing.  Ortiz was living in Leipzig in the 1820s, so I think that this is in Germany.  There are some wild pieces of headwear in this image, including the strange grey headdress on the girl in the short-sleeved spencer and the headdress of the woman directly behind her.  Also, on the far left is a soldier wearing a very unusual helmet!  I know very little about early 19th century German uniforms, so if anyone out there has more information about him, I sure would appreciate it!

Street Scene by Georg Emmanuel Ortiz.  The British Museum. 

They don’t have many details about this print at the British Museum, but my guess is early 1820-1825, based on their clothing.  Ortiz was living in Leipzig in the 1820s, so I think that this is in Germany.  There are some wild pieces of headwear in this image, including the strange grey headdress on the girl in the short-sleeved spencer and the headdress of the woman directly behind her.  Also, on the far left is a soldier wearing a very unusual helmet!  I know very little about early 19th century German uniforms, so if anyone out there has more information about him, I sure would appreciate it!

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oldrags: Portrait of a Lady in Blue and Black by Johann Georg Reus, 1769 Germany, the Bowes Museum The sitter isn’t very pretty, but the dress is interesting.  I like the idea of a black stomacher trimmed in lace on a blue bodice. GORGEOUS cap!  The lace is so stiffened it almost gives it a bonnet appearance.  And I think it is the top of a pinner apron and not a stomacher, since it looks like the skirt of the apron is sitting in her lap and stomachers almost always go under the front closures, though pinner aprons are pretty unusual!

oldrags:

Portrait of a Lady in Blue and Black by Johann Georg Reus, 1769 Germany, the Bowes Museum

The sitter isn’t very pretty, but the dress is interesting.  I like the idea of a black stomacher trimmed in lace on a blue bodice.

GORGEOUS cap!  The lace is so stiffened it almost gives it a bonnet appearance.  And I think it is the top of a pinner apron and not a stomacher, since it looks like the skirt of the apron is sitting in her lap and stomachers almost always go under the front closures, though pinner aprons are pretty unusual!

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