The Vignette represents a Lingerie Shop in Paris, around 1770. Pattern of the most common underwear. Alphabetical and numerical embroidery patterns.
The art of lingerie during the rococo period in Paris c. 1770.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Directoire Members of The Council of the Five Hundred.
This Council initiates the laws; it is within this Council that the resolutions which are presented to the Council of Elders are formed.
Paul Poiret. Elégante robe Rêve d’Or. Petit manteau Monavana.
Les Créations Parisiennes. La Mode est un Art. Haute Couture by PAUL POIRET 1930.
Directoire Member who constitute the Council of Elders.
Costume of the Members who constitute the Council of Elders.
Costumes of the spiritual orders. 10th to 18th century.
Monastic habit of spiritual orders from Poland, Germany and Flanders from the 10th to the 18th century.
Rococo. Elegant little dress in striped Indian taffeta, 1778.
Elegant little dress in striped Indian taffeta, trimmed in Pouf, the trim in the same fabric.
Soldiers from Lombardy and Venice in the 16th century.
Italian soldiers in Mi-Parti fashion. Renaissance clothing from Venice and Lombardy at the beginning of the 16th century.
Laundress from around Lisbon, Portugal. Musée cosmopolite.
Laundress from around Lisbon. She represents a washerwoman from the outskirts of Lisbon who takes the clothes to be washed.
Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox
Frances Stewart was one of the great beauties of the Jacobean court, she was also the patron of Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony.
The Grand Durbar at Cawnpore after the Indian Uprising of 1857.
Grand Durbar at Cawnpore after the suppression of the Sepoy Revolt. Lord Canning investing the loyal Rajahs with decorations and proprietary rights by Marshall Claxton, Blackie and Son, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1862.