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France. Peasants. Gendarme on horseback c.1680.

On the history of costumes. Forty-fourth sheet. Last third of the XVIIth century. Münchener Bilderbogen No. 747. Illustration by F. Rothbart. France. Peasants. Gendarme on horseback c.1680. France. Peasants. Gendarme on horseback c.1680. Baroque fashion period. Last third of the XVIIth century. Reign of King Louis XIV (1643-1715). Source: Münchener Bilderbogen 1848 bis 1898. On the history…

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Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême, duchesse de Berry

Madame de Savoïe. Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême, duchesse de Berry (1523–1574) Madame de Savoïe Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême, duchesse de Berry (1523–1574) Black pencil and red chalk. Marguerite de France, the fourth daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany, was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 5 June 1523 and married the Duke of Savoy, Philibert-Emmanuel, on 9…

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Jamaica. Bridge, over the White River. St. Mary’s.

Bridge, over the White River. St. Mary’s. Bridge, over the White River. St. Mary’s. Published May 1, 1825 by Hurst Robinson & Co., 90 Cheapside, & Lloyd, Harley Street, London.Drawn by James Hakewill. Engraved by Sutherland BRIDGE OVER THE WHITE RIVER, ST. MARY’S. The White River rises on the North side of the parish of St. Thomas in the Vale, and its course in its greatest length forms the…

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Costumes in London in the years 1590 and 1640.

Costumes of England. 16th and 17th century. On the history of costumes. Hundred and Fourth Sheet. England. XVIth and XVIIth century. Münchener Bilderbogen No. 1180. London 1590. Distinguished women. Merchant and merchant’s wife. Officer.London 1590. Merchant’s wife. Servant. Burgess wife. England 1640. Lady in the street. Burgher’s wife. Lord Manors wife. Matron. Source: Münchener Bilderbogen…

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Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Châtillon.

Odet de Coligny, known as the “Cardinal de Châtillon” (1517-1571), was a French Huguenot leader, Catholic prelate of the Renaissance, known for his conversion to Calvinist Protestantism. First Archbishop of Toulouse, then Bishop of Beauvais, he was excommunicated by the Pope after his conversion in 1562 and married in 1564. He was a member of the government of Queen Catherine de Médicis. Odet de…

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Old Ghiordes rug 18th c.

Ghiordes (Asia Minor) Rug Ghiordes (Asia Minor) Rug. 6ft. 8in. X 4ft. It contains 160 knots to the square inch, and is woven of wool and cotton, a peculiarity of this old make. One of the most highly prized by collectors. Turkish carpets are characterised in general by boldness of pattern rather than by the refinement of design which distinguishes The classic Persian weaves. As a rule, the…

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Caravansary at Kustchiuk Czemege

Caravansary at Kustchiuk Czemege (Küçükçekmece) 1810. Küçükçekmece is a fairly large, densely populated district in western Istanbul and was named after the adjacent lake of the same name. Küçükçekmece was a village in central Bucak (Merkezi Bucak) of Bakırköy County, Turkey, until it became an independent county in 1987. CARAVANSARY AT KUSTCHIUK CZEMEGE, IN ROMANIA. Caravansaries (sometimes…

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Mignons of Henri III. of France

Some of the Mignons of Henri III Henry III pushed the high nobility of France out of the affairs of state when they did not cease to fight for power after the beginning of the Huguenot wars. He replaced their members with those of the lower nobility, to whom he gave high tasks and on whom he relied in his government. These young men were not clients of high nobles; rather, their position was…

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Catherine de Médici. The kings mother.

Catherine de Médici, Queen of France 1519-1589. The King’s mother Catherine Portraiture at the court of the Valois Black pencil and red chalk. Catherine de Médici, Queen of France, was the daughter of Lorenzo II de Médicis, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de Bourbon. Born in Florence in 1519, in 1533 she married the second son of François I, who became king under the name of Henri II in 1547.…

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Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a castle in far south-west London on the left bank of the River Thames in the borough of Richmond upon Thames. The palace was a favourite residence of English and British kings from 1528 to 1737. Originally built in the Tudor style, large parts were rebuilt in the English Baroque style towards the end of the 17th century and in the 18th century. With its huge dimensions,…

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Femme en Bergère by Largillierre 18th c.

Femme en Bergère (1710-1712) by Nicolas de Largillierre Portrait of a woman as Astrée, probably Mary Josephine Drummond, Condesa de Castelblanco. Nicolas de Largillierre 1656-1746. Collection de M. H. Deutsch (de la Meurthe). Femme en Bergère (1710-1712). As a counterpoint, in the Louis XIV furniture room, to Rigaud’s President Gaspard de Gaeïdan, this woman painted by Largillière appears in…

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Japanese tea ceremony

Former Kioto and Yatsoushiro factories. Bowls for the tea ceremony. Anciennes fabriques de Kioto et de Yatsoushiro. Bols pour la cérémonie du thé. The Japanese tea ceremony (jap.茶道 sadō, also called chadō, Engl. roughly tea way; also 茶の湯, cha-no-yu, hot water for tea), also known as the tea ritual, is close to Zen in its underlying philosophy. The tea used is so-called matcha, finely ground…

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Edward the Black Prince. The last hero of English chivalry.

Edward of Woodstock, named after his birthplace, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as The Black Prince, but actually Edward Plantagenet; KG (June 15, 1330 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire; – June 8, 1376 in the Palace of Westminster, Middlesex) was the eldest of the seven sons of King Edward III and Queen Philippa and thus future heir to the throne. He was also the father of the future King Richard…

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Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest and his Adventures.

CHAPTER XXXIV. ROBIN HOOD OF SHERWOOD FOREST. In this our spacious isle I think there is not one,But he of ROBIN HOOD hath heard and Little John;And to the end of time the tales shall ne'er be doneOf Scarlock, George a Green, and Much the miller's son,Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon madeIn praise of ROBIN HOOD, his outlaws and their trade. DRAYTON. Nottingham. Sherwood…

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Uknown woman. Femme inconnue. Jean-Marc Nattier. 18th c.

PORTRAIT Femme inconnue. (Femme inconnue c1740) Jean-Marc Nattier. 18th century French school. Femme inconnue (c1740) PAR NATTIER, 1685-1766 Collection de M. Groult. Ecole Française du XVIIIème siècle. Portrait of an unknown woman, such as the 18th century has left us so many, and in which was fixed a certain moment of grace, charm and beauty, the memory of which persists as a rare and…

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Le Billet Doux. The Love Letter by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Le Billet Doux. Fragonard, early 1770s Le Billet Doux (The Love Letter early 1770s) Here we see Fragonard in his phase of sentimental recorder of love-scenes so typical of the art of Louis the Fifteenth’s day. Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). Source: Fragonard by Haldane Macfall (1860-1928). Publisher London: T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York: F. A. Stokes, 1909.

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Old Carpet from Armenia or South Caucasia. 18th c.

Old Caucasian Carpet, XIII Century Old Caucasian Carpet, XIII Century Width: Seven feet one inchLength: Fourteen feet eleven inches Beautiful, not alone for the richness and depth of color, but for the interesting Cufic border, is this Caucasian carpet of the Eighteenth Century. The design, with but slight alteration, was largely used in the rugs from Dagestan *) and Shirvan throughout the…