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Joseph Blackburn  (1730–1778)
Alternative names	Jonathan B. Blackburn
Description	American portrait painter
Date of birth/death	circa 1730 date QS:P,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	circa 1778 date QS:P,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Location of birth	England
Work period	between circa 1750 and circa 1780 date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Bermuda, New England
Authority file	: Q3184614 VIAF: 95815044 ULAN: 500021703 LCCN: nr89014350 Oxford Dict.: 65538 RKD: 8769 WorldCat

Identifier: twocentsofcostu01earl (find matches)
Title: Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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s portrait facing page 26 ; also the portraitof Lord Fairfax, facing page 38.) In the court ofCharles II and Louis XIV of France the boot-topsspread to absurd inconvenience. The toes of theseboots were very square, as were the toes of mensand womens shoes. Childrens shoes were of simi-lar form. The singular shoes worn by John Quincyand Robert Gibbes are precisely right-angled. Itwas a sneer at the Puritans that they wore pointedtoes. The shoe-ties, roses, and buckles varied ; butthe square toes lingered, though they were singularlyinelegant. On the feet of George I (see portrait fac-ing page 184) the square-toed shoes are ugly indeed. James I scornfully repelled shoe-roses whenbrought to him for his wear; asking if they wishedto make a ruffle-footed dove of him. But soonhe wore the largest rosettes in court. Peacham tellsthat some cost as much as ^3° a pair, being then, ofcourse, of rare lace. Friar Bacons Brazen Head Prophecie, set into a Plaie or Rhyme, has these verses (1604): —
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Batts and Broags, Boots and Shoes 379 Then Handkerchers were wroughtWith Names and true Love Knots ; And not a wench was taughtA false Stitch in her spots ; When Roses in the Gardaines grew And not in Ribons on a Shoe. Nozv Sempsters few are taught The true Stitch in their Spots ;And Names are sildome wrought Within the true love knots ;And Ribon Roses takes such PlaceThat Garden Roses want their Grace. Shoes of buff leather, slashed, were the very heightof the fashion in the first years of the seventeenthcentury. They can be seen on the feet of WillSommers in his portrait. Through the slashesshowed bright the scarlet or green stockings of clothor yarn. Bright-colored shoe-strings gave additionalgaudiness. Green shoe-strings, spangled, gildedshoe-strings, shoes of dry-neat-leather tied withred ribbons, russet boots, white silken shoestrings,—all were worn. Red heels appear about 1710. In Hogarthsoriginal paintings they are seen. Women wore themextensively in America. The jack-boots

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