MaraRiley.net–18th Century Women's Hats

A Gallery of 18th Century Women's Hats

detail from Morning, from Hogarth's "Four Times of the Day" (1738), showing the exterior of a coffee house in Covent Garden with patrons flirting with market girls. The girls are wearing hats typical of lower-class women.

details from An Angling Party by Edward Smith, 1773

drawing of lady mary somerset, duchess of rutland, by John Downman, 1783

portrait of miss vernon, by William Hoare, 1760s

Detail from _Marriage A-la-Mode: The Countess's Morning Levée, by William Hogarth, 1743-5

Sir Joshua Vanneck and his Family, by Arthur Devis, 1752

Thomas Gainsborough, "Robert Andrews and his Wife Frances", c. 1748-9

Francis Hayman, "The Milkmaid's Garland, or the Humours of May Day", 1740

Detail from Francis Wheatley, "Four Times of the Day: Noon", 1779

Detail from Francis Wheatley, "Scene from a Camp with an Officer buying Ribbons (The Departure from Brighton), 1778.

Detail from Francis Wheatley, "Scene from a Camp with an Officer buying Chickens (The Encampment at Brighton), 1778.

Detail from Edward Penny, "The Marquess of Granby aiding a Sick Soldier,", 1765

Philip Mercier, "The Oyster Girl (The Fair Oysterinda)", c. 1745-50

Detail from H. Pickering, "Eleanor Frances Dixie,' c. 1755.

Gainsborough, costume drawing, c. 1760-2.

Gainsborough, "Mary, Countess Howe," early 1760s.

Detail from Harlot's Progress, Plate 1, Hogarth, 1732

Detail from Hogarth's "The Distrest Poet", 1736-7 -- milkmaid presenting her bill

Detail from Hogarth, "Beer Street," 1748.

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