> What a strange portrait. It looks like an amalgamation, or artist's > re-imagining of something like these two gowns, with a bit of Flanders flair > in the color and in the hat: >
> As others have already said, I'd guess a much later date, more like early > 20th century than Victorian, though. The face is what I based my mid-20th-century guess on. This example doesn't look like a 1920s face. And, as it happens, I own a c.1922-goes-Renaissance doll (as in, probably made c.1922). It has much more of the c.1922 line to the dress - that dropped waist-and-panniers look - along with a plausible ruff, skirt, neckline, and sleeves. So I'm guessing mis-20th-Century rather than early-20th-Century. Where did this portrait come from? Do we know anything else about it? -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
