A Thousand Pixels

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Book Covers I've done for Wings ePress

Here are a few of the book covers I've done for Wings ePress.

Two Ladies with Telescope

Original Ackermann's Repository Fashion print

Ackermann's Repository of the Arts

I really like this plate. I'm showing the original scan which has images from the opposite page; the cleaned up version, and a third version that I colorized.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Hairstyles, Bonnets, Hats & Caps

Bonnets from Costume Parisien


Costume Parisien

Bonnets from Costume Parisien

Ackermann's Repository

I'm currently working on a post showing bonnets etc. One of the originals is in really poor condition and taking some time to clean up without destroying details. The caps are very interesting -more detailed and elaborate than I had imagined when reading Heyer or other Romance authors. I enjoy doing this, it is a great stress-reliever, and I get a lot of practice with Photoshop. Just got a new version (my previous one was 8 years old! Practically from the Stone Age!) and I'm playing with it. Its a "student" version from England, so a bit different from American versions, I think. Anyway, its fun. I can always use Photoshop Elements if things get too complicated for me! I may post a few photos of "Georgian" and "Regency" jewelery: NOT owned by myself, of course.

I do have a beautiful miniature from the Regency era, of a beautiful lady posed somewhat like the Empress Josephine. I don't want to remove it from the frame, so it'll take a bit of work to get a good scan thru the glass.

Most of the pictures I post are in my Screensaver's folder, and my computer rotates thru them at random.

I keep meaning to post more links to Regency/Fashion/Austen sites. One of these days!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Georgian Wedding Cake!

From a Martha Stewart cake site

Wedgewood style (Regency or Georgian)

So Pretty! From same link as above.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Georgian (or Bourbon) Era Etchings

"After the Soire" and La Dame Du Palais De La Reine

Bourbon Era Fashion Etching

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

More Georgian Era etchings

Somebody is trying to seduce Someone Else.

Whist: early version of Bridge

Monday, February 7, 2011

Georgian Lady on Horseback

"La Renconatre Au Bois De Boulogne".

Print Nach Joan Michel Moreau le Jeune,
Geftochen von Heinrich Guttenberg

Bourbon era FAshion Etching

Bourbon Era Fashion Etching

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Gallery of Fashion, 1790-1822 Batsford Colour Books

Some scanned colour plates from the Batsford Book. From the cover flap:

"More than half of the colour plates from this volume are taken from Heideloff's Gallery of Fashion. His plates are among the masterpieces of the English School of aquatints; curiously little other work is known by him...

Gallery of Fashion Title Pages and Plate #1

Gallery of Fashion Georgian era/Regency Fashion -Court Gowns

Gallery of Fashion Georgian Fashion

Gallery of Fashion Georgian/Regency Fashion

..The other plates are a selection from the fashion plates in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, published from 1809-1828. These plates are dated 1822."

Gallery of Fashion, Ackermann's Regency Fashion

Gallery of Fashion Court Dress

Gallery of Fashion Regency/Georgian Fashion

Gallery of Fashion Regency Fashion Plates

Monday, January 10, 2011

La Mode Feminine

Here are some scans from a book I have, published in the 1920's, of fashion plates from the eras starting in 1795-to 1820. They used the pochoir (stencil) technique, rather than individually painting each print with water-colors as fashion magazines in the Georgian-Regency-Empire Era did.


La Mode Feminine, Empire/ Regency Fashion

La Mode Feminine Late Regency Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine Empire/Regency Fashion

The drawings are somewhat Art Deco-y; I think they highlight the similarity of Fashions of the time to the Regency time. Both were influenced by "Greco-Roman classicalism" mixed with Egyptian themes, the Empire/Regency got theirs from Napoleon (and then Admiral Nelson's) excursions to Egypt. And in the 20's fashion -and Art- was somewhat influenced by the discovery of King Tut's tomb.