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All have the low narrow V waist, accentuated by their domed shaped skirts, the predecessors of the larger hooped
crinoline of the 1850s. Stays or corsets were made increasingly rigid to support this fashionable looking small waist,
some of which incorporated whalebone. The most senior women, in the centre being helped out of the boat, and
seated with the elaborately embroidered scarf or handkerchief on her lap (to the left), are distinguished by having
flowers decorating the insides of their pale bonnets.
Footnote:
1. Crookshank, A. & The Knight of Glin, The Painters of Ireland c.1660-1920, Barrie and Jenkins Ltd., London, 1978, fig. 215
(illustrated)
€30,000-€50,000 (£22050-£36750 approx. approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 30IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 28 SEPTEMBER 2015