Queries: Dressed portraits by Mary Way

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Portrait miniatures, dressed fashion plates, and fabric pictures have been found in France, Italy, and England with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century examples also appearing in the United States. Dressed prints—the embellishment of fashion illustrations with fabrics to make them appear dressed—have been dated to the 1690s.  The American artist Mary Way specialized in creating dressed portrait miniatures in the late eighteenth …