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Caucasian (1860s). Photo by William Carrick (1826 - 1878). https://t.co/PYmqd6mDU6

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2019-09-16

Hairstyles of the 1860s by Henri de Bysterveld: As nineteenth century women began visiting hairdressers, those who knew of Henri de Bysterveld began requesting his creations ... https://t.co/unkGWYDdoK

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2019-09-10

Developed in the 1860s, the "en-tout-cas" ("in any case") could be used either as a parasol or an umbrella, useful in changeable summer weather. This silk example from the the late 1920s includes a stern-faced duck as its handle.

(Wet afternoon, 1930, by Ethel Spowers)

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2019-08-14

Buying railway tickets - one wonders if they were charged extra for accommodating those massive crinoline skirts. Was the 1860s the worst decade in fashion - discuss. Fashion plate from 'The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine', June 1866.

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2019-06-19

Rosa Bonheur’s “Study of a Dog” (1860s?) @ Princeton University Art Museum

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2019-06-05

Old Waterloo Bridge viewed from the terrace of Somerset House before the construction of Victoria Embankment. In total Bazalgette’s Thames embankment scheme of the 1860s reclaimed 22 acres of land from the river. Image © Trustees of the

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2019-05-28

Happy
During the 1860s Randolph Caldecott worked in the Manchester & Salford bank on Mosley Street - a stone's throw from - and attended Manchester School of Art in the evenings.
'May Day' celebrations, from his 1884 picture book ‘Come Lasses and Lads’.

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2019-05-01

As it's time to revisit this superb photograph of a gardener from Chelmsford, 1860s, complete with an impressively spouted watering can.

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2019-04-29

13 Outlines of Various Countries - Funny Maps From The 1860s - https://t.co/ab4OnhhaPg

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2019-04-24

Three lawyers, gently amused, in the 1860s. By Honore Daumier, whose day is today.

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2019-02-26

Thread: Honoré Daumier (1808-79) was born on this day & was one of the most important caricaturists. He was also an avant garde artist who was concerned with the lives of the poor & with justice. Two Lawyers Conversing (1860s) Pierrot with Guitar (1869) & The Advocate (1862-5)

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2019-02-26

Maybe some of these ladies know each other? Alfred Stevens(1823-1906)Belgian painter,known 4 paintings of elegant modern women. An immensely successful painter in the 1860s. Some examples of work during this time r La Dame en Rose or Woman in Pink. 1863: received Legion of Honor

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2019-01-25

Agree, So Good....here's more...Hugues Merle(1823–1881)French painter who mostly depicted sentimental or moral subjects. Compared w/W.Bouguereau. Became friend of Paul Durand-Ruel in early 1860s. Ruel began buying paintings by Merle in 1862 & introduced the artist 2 Bouguereau.

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2018-12-06

"Les Oceanides Les Naiades de la mer", 1860s by Gustave Doré (1832 1883).

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2018-09-16

The Colossi of Memnon, Thebes" by German painter Carl Werner, 1872.

Werner travelled to Egpyt and Palestine through the 1860s and made many sketches and paintings along the way.

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2018-09-08

Not the Cézanne we knew. "The Murder" belongs to a group of paintings (1860s) in which Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) exorcises the demons of his family life & indulges his fascination with romantic literature, fuelled by his childhood friendship with the future novelist Emile Zola.

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2018-06-21

In the late 1860s, the Archaeological Survey of India surveyed the inside of the temple using a small boat. They were impressed with the carving of the stone, which included figures in relief and lotus flowers. https://t.co/cmMmLX1AvS

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2018-06-15

American malacologist George W. Tryon, Jr. was a co-founder of the American Journal of Conchology. His 1860s monograph documents terrestrial from the U.S. https://t.co/rcmfu466vJ Digitized

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2017-12-05

boots, early 1860s boots dyed w/ new synthetic color containing etc

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2017-10-07