Virginie Ancelot, origin. Marguerite-Louise Ancelot was a French writer and painter. Ancelot came from an old established family in Dijon, her father was the deputy N. Chardon.
Virginie Ancelot 1792-1875. French writer and painter.
Category: 19th Century
Marguerite Victoire Babois, French writer 1760-1839
Marguerite Victoire Babois was a French writer, author of elegies and other poems which have placed her name at the forefront of French elegiac poets.
The Bania. A merchant from Mumbai
The Banias are perhaps the least educated of any of the middle class natives of the present day.
A Parsee School Girl in her traditional dress. Mumbai India 1899.
Her jacket may be of cloth, or of cotton, or silk, according to the season, but it is always cut in the same style, faIling just below the waist.
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.
Roman Costumes. Women of Frascati by Bartolomeo Pinelli
Roman Costumes. Women of Frascati by Bartolomeo Pinelli. Frascati is a municipality in the province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio and is located in the Alban Hills and is one… Read More
Clothing of the Parsee, follower of the Zoroastrian faith.
The indoor male costume consists of a muslin shirt, a pair of loose white cotton trousers, a cotton waistcoat with sleeves, a skull cap and slippers.
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
Costume bernois 19ème siècle. Bernese Switzerland 19th c.
Bernese Costume 19th century. Traditional Swiss costume. Costumes historiques par Achille Devéria