Members of the Executive Directory are accorded full military honours.
Directoire costume of the Executive Board.
Greco-Roman Antiquities. Pompeian style. Decorative Architecture.
THE purely decorative architecture, which we find represented on the inner walls of the apartments in Herculaneum and Pompeii, seems to belong less to the domain of reality than to that of fancy.
A princely gathering. Middle Ages France 14th and 15th century.
A doctor of rights. Women’s costumes. A princely gathering. At that time, people looked less at wealth than at the number of costumes.
The execution of the English politician Lord William Russell 1683.
Lord Russell, usually called Lord William Russell, son of William, Earl of Bedford, and Lady Ann Carr, daughter of Carr, Earl of Somerset.
Omens and superstitions of southern India. Magic and Magicians.
Omens and superstitions of southern India by Edgar Thurston. Magic and Magicians. Exorcists and devil – dancers. The practice of magic.
War costumes in the Middle Ages. Flags, banners, standards.
War costumes of the Middle ages. France 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Weapons from the 12th to 15th centuries. Armor, weapons, flags, banners, standards.
Etruscan Art. Jewels. Polychromatic ornament by Auguste Racinet.
Civilization of ancient Italy. The Etruscans, also obsolete Etrurians, were an ancient people in Etruria who lived in the northern central Italy in the area of today’s regions Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio and called themselves Rasenna according to Dionysios of Halikarnassos.
Robe de Cour au grand Orient; Coeffure à la mode Asiatique.
A Madame la Comtesse d’Oyeras. Un tour de robe en blonde tournante
The Togatus and the Roman ladies of the imperial period.
The citizens’ costume of the Romans. The Togatus. The Roman toga of the imperial period. The different types. The drapery. The stola, the pallium or the palla of the women.
Prince Gong. Yixin, Prince Gongzhong of the First Rank
PRINCE KUNG. Illustrations of China and its people: a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented by John Thomson.