#de: 1850s

[clove-pinks]

So tired of fake social media images!!! It's always "look at my new plaid trousers" or "aren't these Albert boots just the thing." But we never talk about the clamps keeping your head in place.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815-1894) "Elizabeth Wethered Barringer" (1852) Oil on canvas Neoclasscism Located in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, United States

[chic-a-gigot]

Magasin des Demoiselles, v. 36, plate 59, September, 1853. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

[resplendentoutfit]

Antonio de la Gándara (French, 1861-1917) • Portrait de Madame Louisa de Mornand, également connu sous La Femme au chien (Women with a Dog) • 1907

Left: Shot silk dresses

Right: Day dress c. 1850′s • John Bright Historic Costume Collection

Shot silk is a fabric which is made up of silk woven from warp and weft yarns of two or more colours producing an iridescent appearance. – Wikipedia

[jeannepompadour]

Maestro Francisco Manuel giving a music lesson by José Correia de Lima, 1850

[fashionsfromhistory]

Day & Evening Bodices owned by Empress Eugenie of France

1850s-1870s

The Bowes Museum via Facebook

[history-of-fashion]

1855 Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz - Josefa Coello de Portugal 

(Museo del Prado)

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

1850s Naval Officer

Is his tye miwackulous enough, @clove-pinks ?

I acquired a small collection of carte de visites of Naval Officers and this charming gentleman features 5 times at different stages of his career. On the back of the above portrait it says "29 years" old.

[thebotanicalarcade]

Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique, 1859

[garadinervi]

Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, Sur la planète Neptune, «Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des sciences», Volume XXVII, September 11, 1848, Institut de France, Académie des sciences, [ca. 1850], pp. 1-8 [Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris]

[lafcadiosadventures]

siiigh i have so much information about prostitution in medieval avignon right now, street views, royal edicts, and i don't know what to do with it. thanks for nothing honoré de balzac

[czerwonykasztelanic]

This agony and this immortality are about to join and constitute our death.

[fawnvelveteen]

Paul Marcellin Berthier, Twelve Plates of Egyptian Objects from "Le Serapeum de Memphis / découvert et décrit par Auguste Mariette", 1857-66

[chic-a-gigot]

Le Conseiller des Dames & des Demoiselles, v. 37, plate 4, September 1854, Paris. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

[designedandplated]

Women's formal gowns, February 1853.

[clove-pinks]

Losing it over John Leech's carte de viste (before 1864) with WORLD'S FAKEST BOOKCASE at left. What an intellectual! He is clearly reading all of those books which are definitely real and not some kind of badly done prop.