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See Wikipedia's 1794 Page and the 1794 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1794 Page as does Jack Lynch
See Chobunsai Eishi's woodblock print, "Kisen Hoshi" (circa 1793-4); Charles Wilson Peale's Maryland Seal of 1794; Angelica Kauffmann's c. 1794 The Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting
Read the texts of 1794, such as the US's Jay Treaty; the Canandaigua Treaty or Great Peace Treaty of 1794; Martha Ballad's Diary
You can check out who was in the 1794 98th Argyllshire Highlanders or who got married in 1794 at Dutch Churches in New York State
Read about The Haitian Revolution that began this year or the oldest US silver dollar from this year
William Godwin. Caleb Williams --This is a classic tale of hunter and hunted. Caleb discovers his employer's dark secret and then must flee.
Elizabeth Gunning. Lord Fitzhenry
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Elizabeth Inchbald. Nature and Art --This is a tragic tale of sexual discrimination. There are some key differences in names of the characters depending on the edition you read. This is one of the classic epic family tales in which one side of the family prospers and the other suffers.
Ann Radcliffe. The Mysteries of Udolpho --The great gothic classic, one that kept Jane Austen's Catherine up all night in Northanger Abbey. The opening is pastoral and didactic, but soon the novel turns into an exploration of lyrical, sexualized terror. You think the novel can't maintain the level of dreamlike, romantic nightmare nor its sexually charged atmosphere; but as you move from a vast abbey in the woods, to a surreal Venice, to the castle where rape and torture seem but a page away, the tension builds.
Charlotte Smith. The Wanderings of Warwick --A weak novel, but the treatment of slavery and suicide is fascinating. This is a sequel to Smith's big hit of 1793, The Old Manor House.
Cartland, Barbara. The Taming of Lady Lorinda. The Bantam Barbara Cartland Library 55. NY: Bantam Books, 1977.
Curling, Audrey. A Quarter of the Moon. NY: Popular Library, 1978.
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This is the first year this volume came out. The journal ran from April to March, so volume I covers 1794-1795. Each volume begins with a brief essay. The April 1794 volume has a two page "Advertisement" before the start of the first issue, April 1794. Excerpts from this are given below.
"A Gallery of Fashion is a work long wanted, and long wished for, and now makes its appearance upon a very extensive plan. It is a collection of all the most fashionable and elegant Dresses in vogue."
"This work, so necessary to point out the superior elegance of the English taste, is the first and only one ever published in this country: it surpasses any thing of the kind formerly published at Paris, and shews at once the different fashions invented at different periods: in short it forms a Repository of Dress."
"The Publisher will make it his particular study to select those magnificent dresses, in which the Ladies appear at the routs, the opera, the play-houses, and the concert-rooms; as well as those elegant morning dresses of Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens."
"Several Ladies of rank and fashion have not only approved of this plan, but they have at the same time granted permission to the Publisher to make drawings of their new dresses, and to insert them in this GALLERY; thus the credit of the invention of the different dresses, will be secured to those Fair Subscribers who contribute to the embellishment of this work (if they have no objection to their names being mentioned). And they will find the Publisher always ready to represent their dresses in that style of elegance, and that original taste, which is so peculiar to the British Ladies."
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (TR.3630.1) Description from An Elegant Art: Fashion and Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles:Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983. "Multicolored verticle satin stripes on solid and chine horizontal stripes of silk; military-style with triple-cape collar and large revers; shaped sleeves; frock buttons at center back of skirt; linen-lined under bodice; Directorie Style" (170). This dress looks like it would drag on the floor, and the sleeves look pretty tight and uncomfortable.
See this page about The New Caricature Dance Fan for 1794 |
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| 1794 Needlework Piece, Image of Mourning Dress, courtesy of Reflections of the Past Image described as: "A late 18th Century embroidered mourning scene for a young child is worked on an ivory silk ground. The stylized scene includes a central tombstone with the inscription written in ink on silk: `In memory of Mifs Betsey Thomson who died Jun 29 1794 aged 4 years.' Also in the scene is a woman in a black dress, three trees (two weeping willow), and tombstones. The large sky area is painted as was typical in this type of needlework. The woman's face is sketched on paper. Size: 9X12 inches. The embroidery in the picture is in very good condition but the silk fabric is deteriorating where there is no embroidery. The sky area is crumbling and there is some damage on the tombstone where the insription was written. The picture is in a period frame. $1095.00 " |
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