#1868

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submitted by @ever-since-ny 🩵🧡

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Dress.

Date: 1868

Place of origin: United States

Medium: Silk

[nemfrog]

Alligator.

Natural history of animals. 1868.

Internet Archive

[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

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[ltwilliammowett]

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

[walzerjahrhundert]

George Frederic Watts

Clytie

ca. 1868–75

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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

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Woman's Wedding Dress.

Place of origin: Liverpool, England

Date: 1868

Medium: Silk taffeta

[digitalfashionmuseum]

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

Victoria and Albert Museum.

[nemfrog]

Queen, worker, drone.

Natural history of animals. 1868.

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[zegalba]

Gustave Doré: Satan in Council (1868)