The Saxons commenced their conquests during the fifth century, but it was not until the year 720 that the earliest MS. preserved to us saw the light.
The Anglo-Saxon fashion and costume history. England c. 460 to 1066.
The dress of the Ancient Britons. The druidical robe.
British costume. The Britons. The druidical robe. Civil dress. The Sagum. The Tunic
Antigone and Ismene. Greek mythology.
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Free Mulatto of Lima, Peru. Mulâtresse libre.
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The Burial of Atala. Francois Auguste Chateaubriand.
The Burial of Atala. Francois Auguste Chateaubriand’s “Atala.”
Ensembles of Bernard & Cie and Ardanse.
Ensembles of Bernard & Cie and Ardanse. Art-Goût-Beauté: feuillets de l’élégance féminine.
Macedonian embroidery with silk, felt appliqué and sequins.
Pattern, Kelim technique, embroidery with silk, felt appliqué and sequins from Kumanovo, Vodna, Romanovce near Kumanovo, Skopje, Macedonia. Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.
Romanian embroideries from sleeve, shoulder and front of a shirt.
Museum for Ethnology, Vienna, Austria. Romanian embroidery pattern designs of 19th century originals. Traditional embroidery from sleeve, shoulder and front of a shirt. Sleeve embroideries.
Archimedes of Syracuse. Mathematician of antiquity.
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Kirghiz Sultan Beck and family. Kazakhstan.
Kirghiz Sultan Beck and family. Kazakhstan. Sultan Beck and family, trained hunting-hawk and camels.