The native opium grown in China, is generally considered the most inferior, and the Indian opium, especially Malwa and Patna, the best.
Various opium pipes. Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.
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Agnès-Drecoll. Robe d’après-midi en crêpe de Chine noir.
Agnès-Drecoll.
Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane.
Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane. In the Arabic version of Thousand and One Nights this story was not yet contained.
THE GRAND SEIGNEUR. The Turkish Sultan in 1749.
THE GRAND SEIGNEUR, taken from VIEN’S CARAVANNE, a book which represents the Dresses in a Turkish Masquerade given by the Pensioners of the French Academy at Rome, in the Year… Read More
Honorable Artillery Company of London
Honorable Artillery Company of London
Habit of the Sultaness Queen in 1749.
Habit of the Sultaness Queen in 1749. La Sultane Reine. Consort of the Ottoman sultan. THE SULTANESS QUEEN, from VIEN’S CARAVANE *. The Habit of the Women, like that of… Read More
Costume of Gambia. Voyage to Africa 1823.
Costume of Gambia.
Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry, Queen’s Own
The Queen’s Own Regiment of Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry
The Border Regiment. British Army 1893.
The Border Regiment (34th & 55th Foot)
The four Grand Duchesses of the House of Romanov.
The four Grand Duchesses, photographed about 1914. From left to right: Maria, Tatjana, Anastasia, Olga. In 1918, at the time of their assassination, Olga was twenty-two years old, Tatiana just… Read More