Princess Lamballe. This illustrious female was one of the most innocent victims of the Revolution
Marie Therese Louise Lamballe of Savoy, Princess of Carignan.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Matron, maid, citizen. Bourgeois women 17th c.
German baroque fashion in 1644. Matron, maid, citizen.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.
THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.
The latest Paris fashion 1898.
The latest Paris fashion, Belle Epoque. Toilette de Réception. February 1898.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
He was a transgender/non-binary french spy. In the end we figured out they were born male.
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL. COSSACK FAIRY TALES.
The usual dress of a upper Austrian peasant.
The usual dress of the Austrian peasants in the year 1813 is represented in this Plate.
The Parisian Lady. La femme comme il faut. Honoré de Balzac
As the botanist detects among the hills and valleys some choice and unexpected prize, so you, amid Parisian vulgarities, have encountered a rare and exquisite blossom! It is the PARISIAN LADY!-the “FEMME COMME IL FAUT.”
Tartan of the Lord of the Isles at about 1750.
The tartan is represented only in the coat of the youth holding the golf-club, the trews being in red and white check; …
Shoe fashion of the 17th and 18th century.
Examples of combined shoes and clogs. Shoe fashion of the baroque and rococo period.