Issue 53 April 2026

20 Miniature Time Traveller Museum encouraged a Regency fashion industry quick to fasten onto a ‘fad’. Themes like Egyptology, foreign travel and the Napoleonic war inspired all sorts of fashion details. A colour, Flamme de Ponche, was described in the Ladies Monthly Museum as being of lavender grey, pale yellow and dark lilac, in a fabric such as shot silk. This colour lasted in popularity for at least 10 years. If you are interested in Regency style doll houses, a basic Georgian style house will suit perfectly. The following ideas will help you to create the perfect ambience. Regency period homes displayed a lot of large oil paintings, landscape and classic art, Grecian inspired reliefs and lots of framed etchings. Oil portraits: these were often family members or important figures. The leading portraitist of the day was Sir Thomas Lawrence known for producing a elegant and fashionable style of painting. Naturalists and botanists were ideal pastimes for clergy and the upper classes and paintings of nature were very popular. Prints and engravings were often display in a ‘skyed’ fashion, hung in tiers from ceiling to floor. Print Rooms: these were popular because the women of the house could paste prints onto card and framing them with decorative borders and swags. Scrapbooking on a large scale! Grecian - inspired reliefs and motifs. Neoclassical themes such as laurel wreaths, urns and lyres were common decorative motifs. These were often reproduced in plaster work or architectural bands around the room. Caricatures and cartoons were popular. Gilded mirrors were essential decorations. This painting on the right is by popular artist of that time, Sir Thomas Lawrence. The subjects are Maria Mathilda Bingham with two of her children. Painted around 1810.