Musical instruments, historic, rare and unique.
Queen Elisabeth’s Lute. Rare musical instruments.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
A Web of Summer Gossamer. A chapter on Bonnets.
A Web of Summer Gossamer (gossamer fabrics). Parisian Chapeaux in 1866.
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, 1314.
Thomas of Lancaster, 2nd Earl of Lancaster was an English magnate and rebel.
A Hungarian aristocratic insurgent cavalry officer.
Insurgent cavalry officer. Pannonia’s inhabitants depicted in their traditional costumes
The King of Hungaria in his coronation robes. Equestrian portrait.
Pannonia’s inhabitants depicted in their traditional costumes, c. 1820.
The royal Hungarian heraldic coat of arms, c. 1820
Hungarian heraldic coat of arms. Pannonia’s inhabitants depicted in their traditional costumes.
Examples Floriated Ornament, by Augustus Pugin.
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) is considered one of the most important representatives of the Gothic Revival.
Directoire costume of the secretary of the executive comitee.
Directoire exécutif in his ordinary costume. He accompanies the Directoire to all public and private meetings.
Easter eggs from Bukovina, Romania.
All the Easter eggs are in the Hamburg Ethnological Museum and come from Bukovina (Romania).
The Corset and the Crinoline. Chapter VII.
The Corset and the Crinoline. Chapter VII. Starving and Lacing. Louis XVI Dress in 1776. George III.