by rebecca holcombe MA
Oil painting
h: 50 w: 50 d: 4 (cms).
The painting depicts a 17th-century lady riding aside, wearing a riding habit influenced by a French design of the period. The name of the painting is inspired by a 1666 diary entry of Samuel Pepys, where he writes: 'Walking here in the galleries I find the Ladies of Honour dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just for all the world like mine, and buttoned their doublets up the breast, with perriwigs and with hats; so that, only for a long petticoat dragging under their men’s coats, nobody could take them for women in any point whatever...'
£475 (As exhibited.)
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