Bavarian wedding headdress, c. 1875-1900.
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
Early 1800s folk art portrait miniature of a “Miss Butt.” The rest of the Butt family is coming up in my queue. Seriously.
If I had $1300 extra dollars I would buy this RIGHT NOW.
Madame Philippe Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859) by French artist Marie-Guillelmine Benoist (1768–1826), ca. 1802-03.
Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emma (1765–1815), Lady Hamilton. Miniature portrait by Irish artist Adam Buck (1759-1833), 1804.
“The Queen in her Bridal Dress, Engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Chas. Heath by W. H. Mote from a drawing by W. Drummond, Esq.”
Courtesy the NYPL.
