Lady and Miss De Bourgh take some air

[sqbr]

My next Prompt: "the characters from a fandom, in steampunk gear..Pride and Prejudice! Or Temeraire".

Unfortunately, the only characters I can think of good in-character steampunky ideas for are minor ones like Wickham or Mr Bennet, though the idea of regency steampunk is really interesting in general. But I was inspired to make a picture of Lady Catherine and Miss Anne De Bourgh which I think came out quite well. Now that that's out of my system I might be able to draw someone else. Maybe I'll give Temeraire a go instead. And of course there's black_samvara's prompt, which I *am* inspired by, I just have some details I'm nutting out.

EDIT: Wait, I just noticed the sentence "Or as cats". HMMM.

Looking at 18th century vs 19th century technology (P&P was written around the turn of those centuries), I decided the main difference was how unfinished everything looks, since they're just figuring things out as they go along. So I decided to try to get that across. Also it was fun mimicking the art style of the time. I accidentally scanned the image in at a really low resolution :(

Main reference pictures:
http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/dress/morn.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/13/us/20081013ECO_9.html
http://z.about.com/d/inventors/1/5/7/M/cugnot.jpg

I recommend not looking too closely sat the workings of the carriage :)

Comments

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

I was going to point out that Darcy could have been 15 and Anne 2 and they would still have been considered 'children together' but (if I remember correctly) the actual line is "we discussed the match when they were in their cradles" so yes, they would be close contemporaries I'm guessing.

[alias_sqbr]

Oh, that makes her *really* old. No wonder Lady Catherine is desperate for him to marry her.