The bolero is a Spanish dance, which evolved from Contradanza and Sevillana.
Costume Espagnol, Bolero. Spanish bolero dancers.
Category: Romantic Era
Espagnol corrida de toros. Spanish bullfighting.
The bullfight takes place in a bullring (Plaza de Toros), which usually serves this purpose exclusively.
Représentation romantique d’une femme amazone au 8e siècle.
Romantic depiction of an Amazon woman in the 8th century. Amazon female warrior.
Flower girl of Paris with huge wooden shoes, 1821.
This way of carrying loads is common in France. A wooden frame is secured to the shoulders, and rests upon the whole surface of the back to the hips.
French pilot in large petticoats, boots, gay colored caps and earrings.
The packets from Brighton to Dieppe, when in sight of the harbour, are taken possession of by French pilots
A female of Vercelli with peculiar head-dress. Italy Piedmont 1821.
A female of Vercelli, Piedmontese. This one of the most peculiar head-dresses belonging to the lower orders in Italy.
Donna di Torino. Woman of Turin. Italian popular costume of 1821.
AT Turin the dress of the females is very remarkable. The elaborate and various forms of their caps are singular and picturesque.
Fishermen at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Département Pas-de-Calais.
The peasantry, the fishermen, the postillions, all classes below the bourgeoisie, are now, as they were formerly, dressed in heavy, cumbrous woolen cloth.
French painter Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun 1755 -1842.
Madame Lebrun was a French painter of classicism. She is said to have been one of the most beautiful women of Paris at a young age.
French Postillion wearing sçavans, nankeen trousers and leather hat.
The mixture of self-conceit, noise, tawdry, and shifts, forming his composition, constitute a true and complete emblem of his countrymen’s natural accomplishments and qualities.