Edward of Woodstock, named after his birthplace, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as The Black Prince, but actually Edward Plantagenet; KG (June 15, 1330 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire; – June… Read More
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest and his Adventures.
Robin Hood was born at Locksley, in the county of Nottingham, in the reign of King Henry II, and about the year of Christ 1160.
Le Billet Doux. The Love Letter by Jean Honoré Fragonard
A Love-scene typical of the art of Louis the Fifteenth’s day.
Clasp of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. 16th century.
Jewellery pendant of Charles V. This jewel exhibits a mass of precious stones. Renaissance craftsmanship
Stirling Castle, Scotland.
The View was taken in the Year 1778. The Print shews the south-west aspect of the Castle.
Sarah Garay Brunsden, Lady Lyndhurst
1st wife of John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
The Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy.
The celebrated bridge of the Rialto was built under the government of the Doge Pascal Cicogna
German Noblewoman and Noblemen 1565-1570.
German Renaissance Fashion between 1565 and 1570.
Dorothy Levitt. The Woman and the Car. The question of dress.
Levitt, Dorothy (1909), The Woman and the Car – A chatty little handbook for all women who motor or who want to motor.
A Ball at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.
The Winter Palace is the former main residence of the Russian Tsars in Saint Petersburg.