{"id":189,"date":"2013-12-04T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/?p=189"},"modified":"2014-04-29T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:05:12","slug":"ivanhoe-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2013\/12\/04\/ivanhoe-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivanhoe in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Holograph<\/a>Last weekend I was in Leuven at the Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), where I\u2019d been invited to give a paper on translations of Walter Scott in our Corson Collection<\/a>. While there, I took the opportunity to display two images from another University Collections item which vividly illustrates the extent of \u2018Scottomania\u2019 in 1820s Belgium. These are from an album of hand-coloured lithographs by Marcellin Jobard (later Belgium\u2019s first photographer) showing the Ivanhoe<\/em><\/a>-inspired costumes for a fancy dress ball hosted by the Prince and Princess of Orange in Brussels on 5 February 1823.<\/p>\n

Belgium was then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, whose court resided in The Hague and Brussels in alternate years. A report in the Lady’s Monthly Museum<\/em><\/a> (May 1823) noted that while the Queen\u2019s balls were very \u2018showy and stately\u2019, those held by the Crown Prince and Princess were \u2018recherch\u00e9 and graceful\u2019. The 5 February ball was held in honour of the British community, to whom the young royals were \u2018remarkably attentive\u2019. Three weeks notice was given<\/p>\n

during which period, you may be sure, the hammers of the armourers of old, on the eve of a battle, were never plied with more skill and industry than were our own fancies and our maids’ needles, to prepare for these promised f\u00eates<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"0030007d\"<\/a>A party of thirty-two guests went as characters from Ivanhoe<\/em>, dancing a quadrille which caused such a sensation that they were invited to repeat the performance at the next Queen\u2019s Ball. Three months later, a report in The Repository of Arts, Literatures, Fashions, Manufactures, &c<\/em><\/a> declared that the Ivanhoe<\/em> costumes remained \u2018the principal topic of conversation at Brussels\u2019. They clearly made sufficient impression for the costumes to be immortalized by the country\u2019s leading lithographic press. The images show the costumes for Ivanhoe himself, for the \u2018Black Knight\u2019 (aka Richard the Lionheart), and for their rivals Prince John and Maurice de Bracy. We also hold hand-coloured engravings<\/a> for a similar Scott-inspired costume ball in Vienna in 1826.<\/p>\n

Paul Barnaby<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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