Fashion of polite society. Great bourgeois clothing. Costumes by waitress in a traditional munich dirndl and middle-class family.
German Biedermeier fashion 1825 to 1830.
Category: 1820
Piferari, Italian Shepherds of the Campagna in 1820
Italian Shepherds of the Campagna “Piferari Playing before a Madonna” in 1820. Drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835). Engraving by C. Hullmandel. Published by Rodwell & Martin, London.
Woman of the Environs of Terni by Bartolomeo Pinelli
Woman of the Environs of Terni by Bartolomeo Pinelli Roman Costumes. Drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835). Engraving by C. Hullmandel. Published by Rodwell & Martin, London.
Dancing the Tarantella by Bartolomeo Pinelli
The Tarantella is a folk dance from southern Italy. It is a term of several dances.
Sbirri of the Kingdom of Naples 19th century.
Sbirri of the Kingdom of Naples. SBIRRI, from Ital. sbirri, an archer, a name given to a class of armed police in Italy, resembling the French gens’d’armes in every thing… Read More
Abbotsford hall door. A complete suit of feudal steel armour.
Hall door looking towards study and showing corner of desk.
Sir Walter Scott`s Meerschaum pipes, spectacles, case, and paper-cutter.
The pipes are finely coloured meerschaum, mounted in silver and with silver covers.
Pair of pistols which belonged to Emperor Napoleon I., Bonaparte.
Pair of pistols which belonged to Emperor Napoleon I., Bonaparte. Claverhouse’s pistol is a fine old Highland pistol. Pistol of John Campbell, Doune.
The gigantic warrior of Bosworth Field.
Armor from hall door of Abbotsford designed for a French knight.
Border war horn and James VI.’s hunting-bottle. Sir Walter Scott.
The war-horn, which resembles an ordinary cow horn, is hooped with iron’. It has a double chain attached to each end by rings. The length of the horn is 22 1/2 inches, the diameter nearly 4 inches.