Seen below are some good photo-reference pictures for an 18th century suit, and these may be useful for artists seeking to depict H.P. Lovecraft as an 18th century Englishman of letters. Interestingly, if Lovecraft had ever acquired the financial means to purchase a steam-heated English mansion in Devonshire, complete with semi-tropical glass-houses, then he could have settled in England. Since he knew of…

… the legal provision which makes me still able, as the grandson in direct male line of a true-born Englishman, to call myself a rightful British subject.

… but otherwise one imagines that our climate would have dampened his ardour for England, even on a summer visit of a few months.