EditorialVirgin and Child, Standing on the Crescent Moon, She has the left foot slightly forward and holds the naked, sitting child on the right arm. It turns its head towards the viewer, grasping one of Maria's veils with her hand, while the left hand lies aga...
EditorialThree Algerian women wearing veils standing, with a little unveiled girl, seated at their feet, Claude-Joseph Portier (French, 1841 - 1910), 1870?1875, Albumen silver print.
EditorialPolyhymnia, Greek muse of hymns, dressed in veils and wreath. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabl...
EditorialA priest shriving a penitent in blue, while two others in black veils kneel, one before the altar with a veiled crucifix; the text beneath has illuminated initial 'O' in 'O precieuse hosteliere de benoite trinite tant co[m]me ie puis vous re..' . Book ...
EditorialFull page botanical painting of Crocus sativus, labelled 'Zaffarano' (Saffron) with two womenin white veils gathering flowers on a mountain top. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea...
EditorialMoses receives the Tablets. Old English Illustrated Hexateuch. England [Canterbury]; second quarter of 11th centu. (Whole folio) Exodus 34, 4-33. God speaks to Moses on Mount Sinai. Below; Moses returns to the Israelites with the Tablets of the Law; he...
EditorialA priest shriving a penitent in blue, while two others in black veils kneel, one before the altar with a veiled crucifix; the text beneath has illuminated initial 'O' in 'O precieuse hosteliere de benoite trinite tant co[m]me ie puis vous re..' . Book ...
EditorialBahadour Shah and Suria Banu. Lalla Ro?kh. [A description of Tableaux vivants re. Berlin, 1822. Bahadour Shah and Suria Banu. Their clothes and veils are of the richest fabrics, and they wear a large part of the Crown Jewels. Image taken from Lalla R...
EditorialPolyhymnia, Greek muse of hymns, dressed in veils and wreath. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabl...
EditorialCostumes of two unknown queens of France, copied from Chartres cathedral by Montfaucon. The wear crowns, veils, long tunics with sleeves, and belts. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King Clovis t...
EditorialWoman in fancy dress called the moon (la lune) with hat with shooting stars, grey dress and veils of stars and roses. Lithograph by unknown artist with pochoir stencil handcolouring from "Nos Travestis" (Our Fancy Dress Costumes), Paris, 1928.
EditorialWoman in medieval costume for a fancy dress ball, old manor or vieux manoir, with tall hat with long veils, two-tone dress lined with ermine. Lithograph by unknown artist with pochoir stencil handcolouring from "Nos Travestis" (Our Fancy Dress Costumes...
EditorialCoptic man and woman in robes, veil and turban in front of the pyramids, portrait of a bearded Copt in turban, and two upper-class women of Cairo in hats, veils and elaborate robes seated shoeless on a platform. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich W...
EditorialMale and female fashion from the 15th century. The illustration at top is from a coloured pen and ink drawing in Heidelberg Library, and shows two women in very original dress with short capes and long veils. The lower illustration is from Ulrich von R...