V&A - A Chippendale bed, ca. 1775.
V&A - Woman's court mantua, 1775-1785. This one was cut down and reused a few decades later, salvaging the intricate embroidery but removing the out-of-fashion hoops that would have made it impossible to walk straight through a door in the original gown.
Interior courtyard at Hampton Court.
V&A - Vauxhall admission ticket, 1786. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens feature prominently in a number of romance novels, probably because any number of indiscreet liaisons happened there, which makes it an easy place to send your heroine if you want her to be able to flirt without being ruined in the process.
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