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Illustrations showcasing historical women's fashion and costumes, highlighting elaborate designs and expressions of emotion connected to beauty and love.

'Rien n'est si joli que la fa a a a ble e e, si triste que la vérité!' ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works
'Rien n'est si joli que la fa a a a ble e e, si triste que la vérité!' ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works
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Valentine - For the bashful heres a way, to send to those they love, a line
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Model for the flag of the Batavian navy, 1796. Design for the allegoric logo added to the Batavian Republic Marine Flag on the left top corner of the existing flag of the Batavian Republic, entered 1 March 1796. Emblem in which the Dutch Virgin and the Dutch lion hold a spear with the freedom hat.
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Rowlandson, Thomas (N.1756-07-14-D.1827-04-22), Madame VERY Restaurateur at Palais-Royal. (Title awarded). Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.
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Les Chats Coiffés. Artist: Boissy (French, active ca. 1825). Dimensions: Mount: 13 9/16 in. × 10 5/8 in. (34.5 × 27 cm)Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 3/16 in. (33.6 × 25.8 cm)Image: 10 1/4 × 9 1/16 in. (26 × 23 cm). Editor: Jean-Baptiste Genty (French, born Andonville, Loiret, 1770, active until 1830). Lithographer: A. Cheyère (French, active Paris, 1826). Series/Portfolio: Suite de grimaces. Date: ca. 1825. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Valentine - Hand in hand
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Holmberg, Werner, work, Sketch book, drawing, 22.5 cm x 29 cm, Holmberg, Werner
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French Postcard, c1900. The artist is unknown.
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Edna C Rex, Wax Doll, c 1937 Wax Doll
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Jean François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince, Le petit conseil Le petit conseil
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Two bed canopies, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined, Two tents with feather flags on top. The right one stands behind the left one and is only partly visible. Both have friezes of lambrequins with tassels and two entwined cords. The edges of the openings are fringed. The background and the interior of the tents are colored., Rome, Italy, ca. 1790, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
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An Artist's Wife (En Konstnärshustru), from the portfolio of the Swedish Fine Art Print Society (Föreningen för Grafisk Konst). Artist: Carl Larsson (Swedish, Stockholm 1853-1919 Falun). Dimensions: Plate: 8 3/4 × 11 11/16 in. (22.3 × 29.7 cm)Sheet: 11 11/16 × 15 7/16 in. (29.7 × 39.2 cm). Publisher: Föreningen för Grafisk Konst (Swedish). Series/Portfolio: The Swedish Fine Art Print Society portfolio (Föreningen för Grafisk Konst). Date: 1913. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Operazangeres Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Leaf 5 Recto from a sketchbook with 35 sheets.
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Voyez-donc un peu, Isménie!comment le Gouvernement permet-il d’afficher de pareilles turpitudes?(Have a look, Isménie!how could the government allow postering of such depravity?), from the series Les bas-bleus (The Bluestockings). Artist: Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879 Publisher: Aubert et Cie, Paris, founded 1829
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Hillegonda Louise Schellinger in Curaçao. Hillegonda Louise Schellinger (born in December 1674 in Curaçao), the youngest of the children of Jenneken ter Borch and Cornelis Schellinger, here in Gesina's imaginary view of the port of Curaçao.
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Ritta L'Andalouse ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works
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Jenny Lind (1820-1887), the Swedish Nightingale, singing in Exeter Hall.
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The children of France. (Title registered) | Miss from Artois and Duke de Bordeaux, children of the Duke de Berry. (Title Title)
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Politique des Femmes: Droit de visite, 1843. Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866). Lithograph;
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Jean François Janinet after Jean Honoré Fragonard, L'amour, 1777 L'amour
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Collage of cut out prints stuck on album magazine of Blauw Paper, c. 1585 - c. 1700 print. collage One of seventeen collages from cover. paper collage
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MARIE FELICITE DENISE MOCKE PLEYEL French pianist, member of a distinguished musical family who owned the Salle Pleyel etc. Date: 1811 - 1875
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Charcoal seller, Tenerife, Alfred Diston, active 1818-1829, 1825, Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/8 inches (22.5 × 18.1 cm), costume, figure study, genre subject, Europe, Spain, Tenerife
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A Bravura Air. Mandane. Artist: James Gillray (British, Chelsea 1756-1815 London). Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate line): 14 3/16 x 10 in. (36 x 25.4 cm). Publisher: Hannah Humphrey (London). Date: December 22, 1801. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Specimens from an 18th century colouring book. Professionally coloured examples and amateurishly coloured versions. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert Sayers The Artists Vade Mecum, Being the Whole Art of Drawing, London, 1766.
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An engraving depicting a young lady using the light from the fireplace to read a letter. Dated 19th century
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Apollo waltz. Prints, Sheet music covers, Scores. 1847. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Waltz, Waltzes , Scores
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Petition of the maids, Caricature with obscene text, Waldow, printer
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Stille Teilnahme 1887 Adolph Menzel German. Stille Teilnahme 354664
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Personification of Africa, Noël François Bertrand, after Jules -Antoine Vauthier, 1795 - 1852 print print maker: Franceafter drawing by: Francepublisher: Paris paper Africa represented allegorically; 'Africa' (Ripa). pearl; pearl necklace. coelenterata: coral
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Mr. Philip Yorke, Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723-1792, British, 1788, Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid paper, Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 13/16 inches (32.9 × 24.9 cm) and Image: 9 3/8 × 7 9/16 inches (23.8 × 19.2 cm)
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"Maidenhood" - painted by G. E. Hicks - from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856. Engraving of a painting. '"Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. Gazing with a timid glance On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse. Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful to thee must seem, As the river of a dream". So sings Mr. Longfellow, and so Mr. Hicks has not unsuccessfully sought to embody'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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The figures represented here are the children of Henrietta Maria, Consort of Charles I, daughter of Charles I, and son of Charles I, Charles I was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was a Stuart and the second son of James VI of Scotland. The illustration dates to 1882.
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Cupid, the little archer , Blanchard, Kitty, 1847-1911
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Miss Ulke,
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MAJAS DE PASEO - ALBUM B DE MADRID - 1796-1797 - AGUADA DE TINTA CHINA - 234x145 mm. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Cut Silhouette of Two Women Facing Right August Edouart (French, 1789-1861). , ca. 1835. Paper (), framed size: 14 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (36.7 x 32.4 cm). Decorative Arts ca. 1835
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Deux Heures De Pose Hors DeTour.. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866
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Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765-1810, Italian, The Mask, 1790. Color printed etching and stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on moderatley thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Mrs, Janisch, The fairy of the warming stubbing,
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Cartoon depicting a proposed use of the Edison phonograph. A phonograph is the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. Invented by Thomas Edison (1847-1931) an American inventor and businessman. Dated 19th century
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La Ronde. Dated: 1897. Dimensions: overall: 25 x 34.5 cm (9 13/16 x 13 9/16 in.). Medium: lithograph on blue laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Henri Eugene Le Sidaner.
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Josephine de Beauharnais, nee Marie Josephe Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie (born 23 June 1763 in Les Trois-Ilets on Martinique, died 29 May 1814 in Rueil-Malmaison) was Napoleon's woman and Empress of the French, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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The swinging polka ,
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France, Paris, costume sketch for Despina for performance Thus Do They All, or The School For Lovers, at Paris Opera Comique
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Doll. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 38.3 x 55.5 cm (15 1/16 x 21 7/8 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Frances Lichten.
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Spring-time, home songs ,
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Cover - Yvette Guilbert 1898 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French. Cover - Yvette Guilbert 334688