3-082-442 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lady Wolseley's costume ball at the Royal Hospital, Dublin, 1895. 'Miss E. Perry, as "A Study" (Romney.) Lord Wolseley. Miss Sybil Oldfield, as Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire. Miss St. John, as Lady Skipworth (Reynolds). Mrs. Greer, Miss Little, and Miss Beresford, as Lady Wargrave, Miss Close, and Lady A. Bingham. Mrs. G. De L. Willis, as Countess of Harrington (Reynolds). The Misses Campbell, as Countess of Buckinghamshire and The Hon. Mrs. Elliott. Miss E. Bramston, as Mrs. Robinson (Reynolds). Mrs. Ward, as the Hon. Mrs. Beresford (Romney). Viscountess Wolseley enlivened the season by giving on March 14, in the hall of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, a most picturesque costume ball. The ladies were delightfully apparelled after the examples set by portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, by Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and artists of that period. The gentlemen's attire, copied from pictures of the same date, was an effective illustration of what colour and charm we have lost in man's ordinary evening dress of to-day. The Lord Lieutenant and a very brilliant company graced the proceedings, which gave great pleasure to all the guests of the charming hostess'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.