18th Century Farmers’ Smocks

Last updated: Jan 22, 2024

This overgarment is more frequently referred to as a “farmer’s frock,” or occasionally a “smock frock.”

(I haven’t found a pattern for the 18th century styles as found in the illustrations below, but you may be able to modify the Folkwear French Cheesemaker’s Smock, Black Forest Smock, or English Smock into something suitable.)

Possible extant example: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 0781272

• The English Farmer’s Wife converted to a fine Lady during his Absence in London, 1772
• The Hay Cart by Francis Wheatley, 1779
• A Scene near Cox Heath, or the Enraged Farmer, 1779
• Lady Gorget raising Recruits for Cox-Heath, 1781
• Solomon Brigden by Charles Almand, 1783
• The Encampment at Brighton by Francis Wheatley, 1788
• Rural Scene by George Morland, 1789
• An Ale-house Interior by George Morland, circa 1790
• Summer Amusement at Farmer G-----’s Near Windsor, 1791
• Trepanning a recruit, 1791
• Return from the market by Francis Wheatley, 1791
• The Soldier’s Return by George Morland, c. 1791
• The vicar receives his tithes by Henry Singleton, 1792
• The Royal Dairy or Geoge Split Farthing selling his Skim Milk, 1792
• The Reckoning: A Farmer Paying the Ostler and Pot-Boy of an Inn by George Morland, c. 1800
• A scene with a country church and a man carrying two pails towards a lying cow, 1794
• The Lottery Contrast, 1794
• Favorite Guinea Pigs going to Market, 1795
• Selling Carrots by George Morland, 1795
• Bonny Hodge, 1795
• Country Scene: Figures by a Cottage Door and Cattle in a Stream by Francis Wheatley, 1795
• A halt of a soldier and his family by George Morland, c. 1795-1800
• Selling Rabbits, 1796
• Roderick Random fighting Captain Weazel, 1796
• Characters in a Village Alehouse, 1797
• The Surgeon giving his opinion of Tom Jones’s wound, 1799
• Shepherd in a snowy landscape by George Morland
• The Thunderstorm by George Morland
• The Woodsman’s Rest by George Morland
• Through the Wood by George Morland
• Welcome Home or the Harvestman’s Return by William Redmore Bigg
• Caricature Ornaments for Screens by George Cruikshank, 1800
• Trick and Tie, or Hodge no Calf, 1803
• The Watchful Farmer, 1804
• Sitting farmer with a pipe by Franz Bernhard Custodis, 1805
• Knibs’s Pound, 1806
• Portrait of Thomas William Coke, Esq. inspecting some of his South Down sheep with Mr Walton and the Holkham shepherds by Thomas Weaver, 1808
• A Short Horned Heifer, 1811
• The haymakers at dinner by Thomas Unwins, c. 1812
• Farm laborers and other studies by Robert Hills