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Mikhail Fokin and Tamara Karsavina in the first performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird by the Ballets Russes with costumes designed by Leon Bakst, 1910.
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Ne pas trouver de voiture... (When you can't get a cab...), from the series Les Petits malheurs du bonheur by Paul Gavarni, 1838.
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A Rough Sea, by Jean Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814–1879)
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Ruby, Diamond, and Enamel Dove Ring, circa 1750
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Grotte alla villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italie, c.1870
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1748 Johann Georg Ziesenis - Christiane Henriette von Pfalz-Zweibrücken
(Arolsen Castle)
#love how the cuffs on her gown echo the same shape of men’s cuffs in this er#era*#historical fashion#portraits#art#18thc
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Elements of an Armour, Northern Italian, 1510
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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ciaran clear (1920 - 2000); seascape / ireland's teardrop / south strand / heaving to for the pilot
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Leg and arm studies for the portrait of Frederick the Sixth
Jens Juel
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Lighthouse, by Carl Saltzmann (1847-1923)
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A full moon landscape with a couple of fishermen in clothes on the lake, (1850)-EDUARD HEIN ( German, 1854-1918)
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Prow of the Ship, by Arthur Briscoe (1873-1943)
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From Head of Medusa (1617-1618) by Peter Paul Rubens
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head of a mourner, marble statue, spain, c. 1400s.
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The ship’s deck, 1860, Édouard Manet
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yellow silk evening dress with oak leaf design
c.1902
House of Worth
Fashion Museum of Bath
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Dress made of silk, cotton, linen, metal
c. 1883-1885
Glasgow Museums
#sort of 18th century feeling with the floral pattern and the way the gown opens#<- guy who makes everything about the 18th century#historical fashion#19thc
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