Lady Hamilton's poodle Codina and the fashion for poodles during the fall of the French monarchy

Aww, what a darling! Little Codina, the favourite poodle of Horatio Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton.

In Russia at this time large poodles were the fashion, while in Europe small ones like this were preferred. Poodles came into great vogue precisely in the years of the fall of the French monarchy.

Codina is clipped in the fashion of the eighteenth century. Today such a cut is called the Continental, but given the absence of tufts of fur on her back, it is rather the Scandinavian Lion. The fur on her rump will grow back and the doggie will become fluffier still, but for now one simply longs to wrap the little mite up warmly 🥰

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