Pitti-Sing. The Mikado. Victorian opera character. The Mikado is a comic opera in two acts by Gilbert and Sullivan (libretto by WS Gilbert, with music by Arthur Sullivan).
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
Mongolia school boy under Chinese Communism 1950s.
Mongolia school boy under Communism in 1950s. Chinese propaganda at the time of Mao Tse Tung.
Dinner at Crisso. In the house of the bishop of Salona.
This prelate is receiving the homage of a Greek peasant, who kisses the ground before he applies his lips to the bishop’s hand.
Entrance to the Tower of the Winds at Athens.
To the south-east of the Roman Agora is the octagonal Tower of the Eight Winds; the Clepsydra of Andronikos Kyrrheste described by Vitruviu.
The weekly market, bazar, or market-place of Athens.
Greeks, Turks, and Albanians are then seen mingled together; and while the variegated diversity of their costumes gratifies the eye of the beholder.
The Dance of the Dervishes in the Tower of the Winds.
This tower has been converted into a Semà-Khanés or chapel for the religious dance called Semà, which is performed every Friday within its walls by an order of dancing dervishes.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Japanese military leader 16th century.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Japanese military leader 16th century. Celui qui devint le grand Hideyoshi (16e siècle), alors au service de Nobunaga en lutte contre seigneurs révoltés, aide son maître à franchir… Read More
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.
Muhammad Humayun second ruler of the Mughal Empire.
Nasir ud din Muhammad Humayun (Persian نصیر الدین محمد همایون, 1508-1556) was the second ruler of the Mughal Empire of India and ruled until 1540 and 1530 of from 1555 until 1556.
Sinhalese coolies from Matura, Sri Lanka.
A group of Sinhalese coolies from Matura, employed on the coffee estate of Laymastotte.