Marguerite Victoire Babois was a French writer, author of elegies and other poems which have placed her name at the forefront of French elegiac poets.
Marguerite Victoire Babois, French writer 1760-1839
The Bania. A merchant from Mumbai
The Banias are perhaps the least educated of any of the middle class natives of the present day.
A Parsee School Girl in her traditional dress. Mumbai India 1899.
Her jacket may be of cloth, or of cotton, or silk, according to the season, but it is always cut in the same style, faIling just below the waist.
Women from around Paris, reign of Charles VII., 1443.
Femmes des Environs de Paris, Règne De Charles VII, d’après Gaignières, 1443.
Medieval nobilty fashion in 1450, 15th century.
Florentine nobility, noble ladies, nobles, German noblewomen, French noblemen
Woman of the Environs of Terni by Bartolomeo Pinelli
Woman of the Environs of Terni by Bartolomeo Pinelli Roman Costumes. Drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835). Engraving by C. Hullmandel. Published by Rodwell & Martin, London.
Assyrian, Babylonian costume history. Mesopotamia.
Fashion history of the Assyrian Empire. Mesopotamia and Babylonian culture.
XV century clothing in Italy.
XV century clothing in Italy. Early renaissance fashion. Upper left half of the image: Fashion 1450. Pharmacist clothing in 1430. Right: Italian Podestà, church warden and soldier. Lower half of… Read More
Roman Costumes. Women of Frascati by Bartolomeo Pinelli
Roman Costumes. Women of Frascati by Bartolomeo Pinelli. Frascati is a municipality in the province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio and is located in the Alban Hills and is one… Read More
Clothing of the Parsee, follower of the Zoroastrian faith.
The indoor male costume consists of a muslin shirt, a pair of loose white cotton trousers, a cotton waistcoat with sleeves, a skull cap and slippers.