The difficult thing about illustrating this century is that I must know what things look like to draw them. Regency writers let you fill in the details with your imagination, but I can't. Let me say, whether it is '18th century wine bottle' or 'Palladian architecture', Google gives some spectacular and often funny hits and misses. Those rounded bottles are appropriate for wine or port. (Rum! I can here some of you say- probably that too!) There was another style of bottle very like a modern wine bottle, but it's no fun drawing another century if things look identical to today. If you could hold a 200 year old bottle you would find it was thick dark glass with lots of inclusions (bubbles in the glass), heavy, and slightly irregular in shape. Each one was hand blown.
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