Seigneur. Règne de Louis XIV. XVIIe siècle. D’après le Chevallier-Chevignard.
French lord in the reign of King Louis XIV.
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French costumes after the Edict of 1633. The Sumptuary law.
Costume de Seigneur et de Dames. Apres l’édit de réforme 1633. D’après Abraham Bosse.
Young Sinhalese women picking coffee, performed in Colombo.
The Plate represents three Sinhalese girls from 13 to 16 years of age, employed in coffee picking.
Muhammad Humayun second ruler of the Mughal Empire.
Nasir ud din Muhammad Humayun (Persian نصیر الدین محمد همایون, 1508-1556) was the second ruler of the Mughal Empire of India and ruled until 1540 and 1530 of from 1555 until 1556.
Dame de la cour du roi François Ier. XVIe siècle.
Lady of the Court of King Francis. Renaissance 16th century.
Garde du corps de la Prévôté. Officier des gardes 1574 à 1589.
Bodyguard of the Provost. Officer of the guards 1574 to 1589.
Embroidery from the Caucasus, Greece, Indian Melicete tribe.
FROM among the few but remarkable specimens of art-work man ship contributed to the Exhibition by the Caucasian Agricultural Society of Tiflis, we have selected a saddle-cloth from Kabardah, a district to the east of Mount Elbruz, the highest summit of the great Caucasian mountain-range. Circassian embroidered Saddle-Cloth. Embroidered dress, Greece. Hand-work of the North-American Indian Melicete tribe. International exhibition, 1862.
Embroidered Table center by Ann Macbeth. Glasgow School of Art, c. 1911.
Embroideries by Ann Macbeth. Glasgow School of Art.
Prussian army uniforms c. 1870. Franco-Prussian war.
The Royal Prussian Army. Sub officer-bearer of the 2nd Guard Regiment. Officer 4th Regiment of the Queen Augusta.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. Richard Wagner.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. ELIZABETH is kneeling at the shrine in prayer for Tannhäuser, when she hears the chorus of the band of returning pilgrims, of whom he was one.