18108 London and Chauncey Tinker

and Chauncey Tinker

Bloomington: 1916

Looks at influences such as Burney

Charlotte (then called Alexandra Feodorovna) and their son Alexander

but more closely "through their interactions with and responses to the Regency world

18108 London and Chauncey TinkerScarce rare. This is a book of plates showing hand painted miniatures of single human eyes set in jewelry, inspired by the Prince of Wales's secret proposal to Maria Fitzherbert in 1785. Given as tokens of love or kept in remembrance of a deceased loved one, these striking works of art might have been worn as pins or pendants, framed by gems, encased in precious metals. Some combine hair with the portrait. Artworks are accompanied by information about