Can you imagine what women wore to ride a horse at the beginning of the twentieth century?
Historical costume silhouettes from 1750 to 1950
Category: Empire
Hat and Sword of Napoleon Bonaparte I.
Of the various hats of Napoleon are for Ex. only about 9 pieces as a known obtained, of which only one of the consular time.
German and French Empire fashion, 19th century.
German and French Empire fashion. Regency period. First third of the 19th Century.
Virginie Ancelot 1792-1875. French writer and painter.
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.
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.
An old purse worn by Sir Walter Scott for many years, made of mole-skin.
It contains a piece of paper on which is written: “An old purse worn by Sir Walter Scott for many years, made of mole-skin.”
Abbotsford hall door. A complete suit of feudal steel armour.
Hall door looking towards study and showing corner of desk.
Abbotsford, desk and chair of Sir Walter Scott.
THE desk so long used by Sir Walter, and “his own huge elbow chair,” are familiar to all who have visited Abbotsford.
French painter Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun 1755 -1842.
Madame Lebrun was a French painter of classicism. She is said to have been one of the most beautiful women of Paris at a young age.
Eugénie de Montijo. Coiffure Second Empire
L’Impératrice Eugénie. The empress Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920). France Second Empire hairstyle (French history period 1852-1870 under Emperor Napoleon III.). „Album de coiffures histories“ by E. Nissy. Published 1890 by Albert… Read More