With measured and stately tread the vice-royal pair advanced to a throne surmounted by a canopy of scarlet and gold

With measured and stately tread the vice-royal pair advanced to a throne surmounted by a canopy of scarlet and gold
With measured and stately tread the vice-royal pair advanced to a throne surmounted by a canopy of scarlet and gold

With measured and stately tread the vice-royal pair advanced to a throne surmounted by a canopy of scarlet and gold

Date1901
Artist (English painter, illustrator, engraver, and designer, 1860–1951)
Illustration Citation"The Baltimore Belle Who Made the Most Brilliant Match of Any Girl in America," by William Perrine, The Ladies' Home Journal, January 1901
MediumGouache on illustration board
Dimensions16 1/2 x 24 in. (41.9 x 61 cm)
frame: 26 1/4 x 33 1/2 in. (66.7 x 85.1 cm)
Credit LineAcquired through the bequest of Frieda Becher, 1975
Object number1975-8
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextBritish artist Lucien Davis, who occasionally worked for American publications, often portrayed the upper classes at social events and at leisure. Here he depicts the Tabbinet (or Tabaret) Ball given in Dublin in 1825, not long after the wedding of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Marquis Wellesly (brother of the Duke of Wellington, who led the defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo) and Marianne Caton Patterson of Baltimore. Davis brought his usual skill of gouache to the watered silks, jewels, and chandeliers.

The gossipy article in The Ladies' Home Journal covered the couple's differences in age and religion, the fashions on display, and the "triumph" of an American woman marrying into the British aristocracy.
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