. She's dressed all in plain white (which was not a usual fashion at the time) in order to express a neo-classical aesthetic, but the pattern of her clothes is according to the prevailing unclassicized 18th-century silhouette of corseted torso above full skirts. Portrait of Elizabeth Falconer, Mrs. Stanhope, as contemplation. 1786.

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