The annexed Plate represents a female of the highest class in her finest habit.
Category: 19th Century
Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, a leader of the great Indian uprising of 1857.
Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi Lakshmibai (Hindi: लक्ष्मीबाई, Lakṣmībāī, originally Manikarnika मणिकर्णिका Maṇikarṇikā; born 1828 in Benares; deceased on 17th June, 1858 in Gwalior) was a Rani (Queen) of Jhansi and… Read More
The Grand Durbar at Cawnpore after the Indian Uprising of 1857.
Grand Durbar at Cawnpore after the suppression of the Sepoy Revolt. Lord Canning investing the loyal Rajahs with decorations and proprietary rights by Marshall Claxton, Blackie and Son, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1862.
The Lantern lighter after Carl Vernet around 1823. Historical professions.
Historical professions. City employee who lights the street lamps at nightfall. Parisian Characters around 1823.
Historical Folk Costumes of the Balearic and Pitiusan Islands.
The costumes depicted here come partly from the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca, Cabrera), partly from the Pitiusas, which the most important is Ibiza.
French costumes from the department Finistère, Bretagne.
Traditional costumes from Châteauneuf-du-Faou, Carantec, Douarnenez, Quimper, Plonévez-Porzay, Scaër, Plogonnec and Langolen.
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess of Bavaria (also called Sisi).
Empress Elisabeth of Austria wearing a courtly gala dress designed by Charles Frederick Worth, 1865, with Diamond Stars by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1865.
Persian characters at the end of the 19th century. Travel to Iran.
Golnabat Khanoum (Mrs. Sugar-candi) of the Susmani tribe.
Madame X. Scandal of a portrait. Paris of the Belle Époque in 1884.
The portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau.
Madame X. or the exciting life in the Paris of the Belle Époque.
Persian woman costume. England Victorian Romanticism.
English Black Romantic. Idealised, representation of women at the beginning of the Victorian age.