#1894

[artschoolglasses]

One Of Queen Victoria's Mourning Dresses, British, 1894-95

From the Met Museum

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submitted by @dewdropsongrasss 💚❤️🤍

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Heir to Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Ferdinand and his spouse Sophie dressed as a Mummy and a Sphinx respectively during their trip to Egypt in 1894.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Coffeyville Weekly Journal, Kansas, May 18, 1894

[nemfrog]

The hedgehog. Farm vermin, helpful and hurtful. 1894.

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[zegalba]

Walter Crane: The Swans Maidens (1894)

[fawnvelveteen]

Edvard Munch, "The Day After", 1894-95

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Green velvet dinner dress, 1894-1896, French.

Designed by Jeanne Hallée.

Met Museum.

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Bodice

House of Worth (French)

Mid 1890s

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

[vintage-russia]

Sacrificial feast in the Sudnozero/Venehjärvi village,Kemskiy uyezd of Arkhangelsk governorate (1894)

Photo by Konrad Inha (1865-1930)

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“Tiffany Aching was lying on her stomach by the river tickling trout. She liked to hear them laugh. It came up in bubbles.” —Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

As soon as I saw The Little Fishergirl by Lucien Pissarro, I thought of Tiffany tickling trout and listening to their bubbling laughter.

The Little Fishergirl Lucien Pissarro 1894

Here’s another variation of the Tiffany Aching version at the top of the post:

[artschoolglasses]

Evening Dress, made in Paris, 1894

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

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[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 51, vol. 15, 22 décembre 1894, Paris. Toilettes inédites. Dessin de G. de Billy. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Robe de drap gris cendré brod�� de petites guirlandes de jais. Garniture de chinchilla. Manches et corsage en velours bleu pailleté d’acier bleu. Toquet de velours bleu avec aigrette.

Dress in ash gray cloth embroidered with small jet garlands. Chinchilla trim. Sleeves and bodice in blue velvet with blue steel glitter. Blue velvet cap with aigrette.

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Robe en drap terra-cotta. Corsage ouvert sur un dessous ondé vert mousse. Manches en velours ondé avec revers de drap. Boutons de nacre teintée. Chapeau de velours garni de plumes et d’une large boucle en pierreries.

Dress in terracotta cloth. Open bodice on a wavy moss green underside. Sleeves in wavy velvet with cloth cuffs. Dyed mother-of-pearl buttons. Velvet hat trimmed with feathers and a large jeweled buckle.

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Robe en drap de soie amethyste garnie a'appliques de velours miroir vert mousse, ouverte devant sur une pointe de velours mousse. Toquet forme par un nœud de velours avec ailes de jais.

Dress in amethyst silk cloth trimmed with moss green mirror velvet appliques, open in front on a point of moss velvet. Cap formed by a velvet bow with jet wings.

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Robe de velours vert émeraude garnie d’un empiècement de vison. Chapeau de feutre orné de dentelle et de nœuds de velours avec fer à cheval de chrysanthèmes.

Emerald green velvet dress trimmed with a mink yoke. Felt hat decorated with lace and velvet bows with chrysanthemum horseshoes.

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Robe en velours anglais. Revers et grand col en drap ivoire. Garniture de renard bleu. Chapeau de velours noir. Manchon de renard bleu.

English velvet dress. Lapels and large collar in ivory cloth. Blue fox trim. Black velvet hat. Blue fox muff.

[mapsontheweb]

1894 US House Elections, the largest house seat swing in a single election cycle in US history.

[nemfrog]

Chinese & Japanese Butterflies. Nature in ornament. 1894.

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