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This fan, made with gouache on paper, shows a symbolic political scene supporting the Jacobites.

A heavy silk dress with an elaborate pattern and lacework.

This Art Nouveau illustration by Aubrey Beardsley shows the famous scene at the end of Canto 1, when Belinda readies herself (or has others ready her!) for the day ahead.

"This teapot is typical of the kind of Japanese porcelain made in connection with the growing interest in tea-drinking in late 17th-century Europe. The use of bright enamel colours on a fine white body is characteristic of the so-called Kakiemon…

"Women’s underwear served two purposes in the 18th century. The first function, carried out by the shift or smock, was to protect the clothing from the body, in an age when daily bathing was not customary. Made of very fine linen, the shift was the…