Glance at the French military hairstyles and helmets. Coup d’oeil sur les coiffures militaires Françaises 1780-1894
French military hairstyles and helmets.
Category: 19th Century
The sacred temple of the Kaaba of Mekka.
Praying round the sacred temple of the Kaaba of Mekka. See here all illustrations of the book The Life of Muhammad by Alphonse-Étienne Dinet. The Kaaba (Arabic الكعبة) ‘) is… Read More
Jewish graves at Bab el Oued, Algier. Algeria 19th century.
L’Algérie historique, pittoresque et monumentale.
Embroideries and decorative objects of the Breton peasants.
Brittany. Traditional Jewellery. Embroidery of the chupen; the gouriz, the corquen. Antique bronze fibulae.
Caravan in an indoor street of Algier, Algeria.
Algeria – Caravan in a Covered Street, Algier. Historical, picturesque and monumental Algeria.
Infanterie légère. Tambour Major. Light infantry. Drum Major. France 1850.
Infanterie légère. Tambour Major. 1850.
Alethe, Priestess of Isis. The Epicurean, by Thomas Moore.
When Alethe arrived at a suitable age, she was taught, like other children of the priestesses, to take a share in the service and ceremonies of the shrines.
Elsa. Renaissance portrait by Ferdinand Wagner.
Elsa by Ferdinand Wagner, Nazarene. Costume jewelry, hair and hat of the period of the 16th century. Painted about 1880th.
Young Sinhalese women picking coffee, performed in Colombo.
The Plate represents three Sinhalese girls from 13 to 16 years of age, employed in coffee picking.
Sinhalese coolies from Matura, Sri Lanka.
A group of Sinhalese coolies from Matura, employed on the coffee estate of Laymastotte.