1775-77 Fancy Dress Costume

Reproduction based on portrait of The Honourable Mrs Graham by Thomas Gainsborough, 1775-77 at the National Galleries, Scotland, accession number NG 332. Portrait depicts 17th-century-inspired costume, of the kind worn for portraiture or masquerades. Hand-stitched using period construction techniques from silk satin, antique lace, glass pearls.

Reproduction 1770s wig and hat.