James Hakewill’s Picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica (1825).
Spring Garden Estate, St George, Jamaica.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Lady Maria Theresa Lewis, 1834.
British writer and biographer.
Interior of St. Peter’s at the Vatican, Rome.
St. Peter’s as the most splendid monument of religion and art
Portrait of John Knox. Scottish clergyman, writer and historian.
John Knox is considered as one of the founders of the Scottish Reformation
Castle of Thurnberg. Called also “The Mouse”.
Castle of Thurnberg is the most perfect of all the Rhenish castles. In sublimity of character, the feudal palace of Thurnberg is unequalled.
German Fashion between 1560 and 1590
German Renaissance fashion. Noblewoman, Noblemen. Citizen, Balladeer, Standard-bearer.
Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England.
Ely Cathedral is considered a masterpiece of medieval architecture.
Portrait of a Lady by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Portrait of a Lady forms the type of feminine beauty which Fragonard seems to have admired particularly.
Castel Del Monte, built by Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.
The Castel del Monte is a building from the time of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250) in Apulia in south-eastern Italy.
The Reculvers, Herne Bay, Kent, England.
Reculver was a village – now a deserted village – about five kilometres east of Herne Bay in the English county of Kent.