1742 Dorothy Boyle

Inspiration to this historical fabric design I found from Anna Maria Garthwaite's early  18th century  designs. 




Lady Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington and Countess of Cork, was a British noble and court official, as well as a caricaturist and portrait painter.
Boyle had a great interest in the arts and She was one of Queen Caroline's Ladies of the Bedchamber. Savile Row, developed at the edge of the Boyle's Burlington House estate, was named after her.

Lady Boyle was a talented caricaturist and made good, though rapid, portraits. Horace Walpole said of Boyle, "She drew in crayons, and succeeded admirably in likenesses; but working with too much rapidity did not do justice to her genius. She had an uncommon talent too for caricatura.