#1840s

[historical-fashion-polls]

[die-rosastrasse]

Ball gown, 1840-41

Maker: Unknown

From the collection of Wien Museum

[diana-andraste]

Daguerréotype, Deux jeunes femmes nues, unknown photographer, c. 1848

[random-brushstrokes]

Charles Piazzi Smyth - The Great Comet of 1843

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815-1894) "Leocadia Zamora y Quesada" (1847)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Pelisse

1835-1840

United States or England

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (Object Number: 1996-273

[eirene]

Young Peasant Woman with Three Children at the Window, 1840

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

1840s

The John Bright Collection

[yesterdaysprint]

The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, 1847

[eyesfullofmoon]

"Louise (Female Cross Dresser)"

Anonymous photographer, c. 1845, France/England.

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Kochubey-Baryatinskaya, Christina Robertson. 1840s.

[chic-a-gigot]

19th century fashion plates, designs, etc.

(with late 18th and early 20th century plates)

Tagged by decade:

1790s | 1800s | 1810s | 1820s | 1830s | 1840s | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s

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[clove-pinks]

Men of the monarchie de juillet by Paul Gavarni, 1840-1841 (Paris Musées).

[catsofyore]

Cinderella. 1843. Source.

[random-brushstrokes]

George Catlin - Portraits of a Grizzly Bear (1846-48)

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1843 Fan by artist/maker unknown, American

white feathers, ivory handle with mother-of-pearl center, silk tassel

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)