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Clothing - Male - Banyans, Gowns & Night Shirts

This document provides an overview of 18th century material culture including banyans, gowns, and night shirts. It contains descriptions and images of various articles of clothing from the 18th century from museums around the world. The document aims to showcase examples of 18th century dress to educate readers.

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Clothing - Male - Banyans, Gowns & Night Shirts

This document provides an overview of 18th century material culture including banyans, gowns, and night shirts. It contains descriptions and images of various articles of clothing from the 18th century from museums around the world. The document aims to showcase examples of 18th century dress to educate readers.

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18th Century Material Culture

Banyans, Gowns, & Night Shirts

Banyans
&

Dressing Gowns

Nicolaes Hartsoeker
by Caspar Netscher c. Late 17th century
(Yale Center for British Art)

Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School


by John Smibert c. 1724
(Yale Center for British Art)

English Silk Banyan:


1st Quarter 18th Century
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Indian Cotton Banyan


1st Quarter 18th Century
(Cleveland Museum of Art)

Sir John Rushout


by John Smibert (English, Active in America) c. 1726
(Yale Center for British Art)

Banyan Dressing Gown

John Fairfax
Circle of Theodore Heins Senior c. 1730
(Private Collection)

American Cotton & Linen Banyan


c. 1725 - 1780
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Portrait of an Unknown Frenchman


by Carle Van Loo c. 1730 - 1740

Alexander Pope
by Jonathan Richardson the Elder c. 1738
(Yale Center for British Art)

Alexander Pope
by William Hoare c. 1739
(National Portrait Gallery)

English Silk Banyan


c. 1735 - 1740
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Brown Wool Damask Banyan


c. 1739 - 1741
(Museum of London)

Blue Silk Banyan


c. 1740

Brown Wool Damask Banyan Lined with Light Brown Twill, Trimmed in Velvet
c. 1740 - 1760

English Coat-Style Silk, Damask Wool and Olive Green Banyan


c.1740 - 1750

Unknown
by Philippe Mercier 1746
(Yale Center for British Art)

Dr. Charles Chauncey M.D.


by Francis Hayman c. 1747
(Yale Center for British Art)

John Palmer, Barrister of the Inner Temple


by William Hogarth 1749
(Yale Center for British Art)

John Farr Reading Horace's Odes


by Francois Vispre c. 1750
(Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Banyan of Indian Cloth Lined with European Calico


c. 1750 - 1775
(Victoria & Albert)

Banyan of Indian Cloth Lined with European Calico


c. 1750 - 1775
(Victoria & Albert)

Striped Silk Banyan


c. 1750

A Collector in his Study


by Wenzel Wehrlin c. Mid 18th Century
( Wimpole Hal National Trust Images)

China Trade Silk Banyan


c. 1750 - 1760
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules


by Andrea Soldi, Italian, active in Britain (from about 1736) c. 1753
(Yale Center for British Art)

French Silk & Linen Banyan


c. 1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

French Silk Banyan


c. 1760
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Chinese Trade Silk Banyan


c. 1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chinese Trade Silk Banyan


c. 1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chinese Trade Silk Banyan


c. 1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chinese Trade Silk Banyan


c. 1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chinese Trade Silk Banyan


c. 1760
(Bonhams)

English Silk Satin Damask Banyan


c. 1760
(Spitalfields)

Dutch Chintz Banyan & Waistcoat


c. 1750 - 1799
(Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands.)

Louis-Francois Roubiliac Modelling


by Adrien Carpentiers 1761
(Yale Center for British Art)

French Silk Banyan


c. 1765

English or European Banyan


c. 1760 - 1770
(Manchester Art Gallery)

Nicholas Boylston of Boston


by John Singleton Copley c. 1767

Ebenezer Storer of Boston


by John Singleton Copley c. 1767 - 1769

Ebenezer Storer II
by John Singleton Copley c. 1767
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Eyles Irwin (1741 - 1797)


by George Willison of Edinburgh

Joseph Sherbume
by John Singleton Copley c. 1767 - 1770

Joseph Green
by John Singleton Copley c. 1769
(Norma & Roger Alfred Saunders Gallery)

Jonathan Jackson of the Newburyport Importers, Jackson & Bromfield


by John Singleton Copley c. late 1760s
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Denis Diderot
by Louis Michel van Loo 1767

Boston Merchant Nicholas Boylston


by John Singleton Copley c. 1769
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Boston Merchant Nicholas Boylston


by John Singleton Copley c. 1769
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Nathan Hurd
by John Singleton Copley
(Private Collection)

HE! HO! HEAVY, DULL and INSPIRED by all thats good


by Sayer & Benett 1772
(Lewis Walpole Library)

You've Crack'd my PIPKIN Sr: said she so MARRY me & Mend it


by Sayer & Benett 1777
(Winterthur)

Indian Cotton Banyan


c. 1770 - 1780
(Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove)

British Silk Banyan


c. 1780
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

European Silk Banyan


2nd Half 18th Century
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The OLD BEA in an EXTESY


by John Dixon, Published by Carrington Bowles 1773
(The British Museum)

The OLD BEA in an EXTESY


by John Dixon, Published by Carrington Bowles 1773
(The British Museum)

The OLD BEAU in an EXTASY


by J. Dixon for Carington Bowles 1773
(The British Museum)

Benjamin West & His Son, Raphael


by Benjamin West 1773
(Yale Center for British Art)

The Savage Family


by Edward Savage c. 1779
(Colonial Williamsburg)

Banyan
c. 1780 - 1800
(National Trust)

English Banyan of Indian Silk


c. 1770 - 1800
(Colonial Williamsburg)

French Silk Banyan


c. 1780
(Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto)

Great Britain Tartan or Plaid Gown


c. 1770 - 1800
(Colonial Williamsburg)

John Whetham (1731-1781), of Kirklington


by Joseph Wright of Derby c. 1782

Night
Gowns

Spitalfields England Silk Night Gown


c. 1707 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)

English Quilted Silk Night Gown


c. 1780 - 1800
(Victoria & Albert)

Night
Shirts

Linen Night Shirt with Dorset Buttons - Cotton Night Cap


18th Century
(RIJKS Museum)

A Banyan and Cap Recreated

Acknowledgements
The material contained within these slideshows is presented for educational purposes only. The
18th Century Material Culture Resource Center does not personally own any of the items
depicted herein and is indebted to the countless museums, libraries, and private collectors who
willingly share their collections with the public through the internet. Every attempt has been
made to credit these organizations and individuals for their contributions as best as possible.
If there is a question you have regarding a particular item featured within a presentation, please
contact the 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center and we will try to answer your
inquiry as best as possible. If for any reason you feel there is any item that should not be
presented here, or if there is an error in any listing, or if you know the source for any item whose
credit is unknown, please inform us and we will make sure your concern is addressed as soon as
possible.
Thank you!
- The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center

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