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Sharing random stuff from 1800 to 1920s: fashion, stories, art, and a compilation of faces and cultures that coexisted then ✨
Evening dress, 1850-55. National Trust (Springhill, County Londonderry).
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To Arms! Sweet bridal hymn, that issuing through the porch is rudely challenged with the cry 'to arms', by English painter Edmund Blair Leighton (1888). In private collection.
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Riding habit, 1825. Rijks Museum.
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'Baby Georgie' woollen cloth teddy bear probably made in Germany about 1906. Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Promenade dress, 1862–64. The MET.
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19.11.2024 13:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This small dolls' house or villa was made by Thomas Risley in 1889 possibly from a kit. It is in the style of a brick house of about 1860. It has a glass conservatory and coach house on each side. Very fragile, this would not have been intended as a child's plaything.
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Dolls' house or model villa made by Thomas Risley in England in 1889. Victoria and Albert Museum.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by English painter John William Waterhouse (1893). Hessisches Landesmuseum.
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Evening dress from the late 1820s, early 1830s in a white or light beige color. Its sleeves are short and puffed, and has buttons on the chest. The dress is embroidered with flowered motives. It is very elegant.
Evening dress, 1829-31. Cora Ginsburg.
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