Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
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A Trooper at the Court of Amarapoorah. Burma.
A Trooper at the Court of Amarapoorah.
Whonghee. Female slave attendants. Burma.
A Whonghee or First Minister’s wife in her Hackery with female slave attendants.
Iceland wedding dress. Iceland bride 1809.
Iceland wedding dress 1809 Source: Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809 by Sir William Jackson Hooker. Published by Longman London, Yarmouth 1813. Above picture: Different… Read More
Ivory fan in the form of a deck of cards, vernis Martin. Watteau style.
Ivory fan in the form of a deck of cards, vernis Martin. Watteau theme: a party in a palace, where Pierrot and Colombine dance.
King of Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Abdallah I. Ibn Saud.
Sheikh Abdallah I. ibn Saud (1740-1818) from the House of Saud, ruled the First Saudi State and was Imam of the Wahhabi
Dahohman Army. An Amazon. Benin Africa 19th. c.
Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh. An Amazon in the Dahohman Army. From the 17th to the late 19th century Dahomey had women regiments in the army.
Art work by Dale Grimshaw. East London, 2016.
Art work by Dale Grimshaw. East London, 2016.
A Chinaman. Chinese Mandarin and the dog as a sign of dignity.
The dog is a sign of dignity both in China and Siam. It appears at the portrait VAN TA GIN in Barrow’s Travels in China wears on his breast.
Glynneath Wales. Costumes and plaids 19th c.
Glynneath Wales.