#1868

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Dress.

Date: 1868

Place of origin: United States

Medium: Silk

[turtleislandhistory]

February 23, 1868

Writer and civil rights activist W.E.B Du Bois is born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

[yesterdaysprint]

A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding, 1868

[coolthingsguyslike]

[ltwilliammowett]

Russian Navy frigate Alexander Nevsky in dry dock at Toulon in 1868

[walzerjahrhundert]

George Frederic Watts

Clytie

ca. 1868–75

[nemfrog]

Dragonfly. Pictures and stories of animals. 1868.

Internet Archive

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Ruins of a Gothic chapel at full moon, 1868. ― Felix Kreutzer (German, 1835-1876)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (German, 1750-1812) Amalie von Levetzow (1788-1868), 1803 The 15-year-old Amalie of Levetzow appears delicate, graceful and almost floating. The life-size portrait was created on the occasion of her wedding, whereupon the pigeon with the myrtle branch. Tischbein was a sought-after portraitist. He had trained with his uncle in Kassel as well as in Paris and Rome and gave his figures with great painting fineness and liveliness. Amalie became the mother of Ulrike von Levetzow, who fell in love with Marienbad, 72-year-old Goethe 17 years later.

[antiquebee]

1868

[digitalfashionmuseum]

White cotton dress with green beetle wing embroidery, 1868-1869, British.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Woman's Wedding Dress.

Place of origin: Liverpool, England

Date: 1868

Medium: Silk taffeta

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @bonjourmiaou 💙💙

[zegalba]

Gustave Doré: Satan in Council (1868)

[howtotrainabraincell]

HAPPY FYRE DAY Y'ALL

OF COURSE YOU DO YOU GORGEOUS BABY MAN. This man is my FORKING soulmate istcc (i swear to cheesecakes)

(FR THO that littel smirk he does at the end of the gif and the little head ohohoho... he does? ACCCKK)

Did she wink?! (did NOT even notice that until I chose this gif! How cute!!)

I wish we had gotten to see more of Evie's playfully side in the game.

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1868

McCord Stewart Museum