EditorialYoung girl of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, 19th century. A chambermaid in town has modified her rural costume with a shorter skirt and ruched sleeves. Her toque hat has large ribbons and she carries an umbrella. Handcoloured copperplate engraving...
EditorialChambermaid of Hamburg, Germany, 19th century. She carries a small corbeille or wicker basket and wears a check shawl and white apron. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Costumes...
EditorialChoosing the jockey: Young woman in form-revealing dress and short martyr hairstyle seated on chaise longue pointing to a young man with a dog, while two older men and a black servant boy watch. "You recognise this charming chambermaid of Mme. *** and ...
EditorialA fashionable woman at the dinner table feeds her pampered spaniel Azor with a chicken wing, the chambermaid eats a herring from a plate on her knees. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialChambermaid, Paris, early 19th century, wearing long red dress, white apron, bonnet and collar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from "Ouvrieres de Paris" (Tradeswomen of Paris), Paris, 1823.
EditorialCostumes of Turkey including high ranking courtiers: sultan, sultana, odalisque or chambermaid, Chief Black Eunuch (Kislar Aga), and an officer of the sultan's court or harem guard, Kapidschi Baschi. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goeds...
EditorialNoblewomen of the late 17th century from Pater Abraham a Sancta Clara's "Weltgallerie" and "Wiener Kaiserbuch." A young chambermaid with gold key and train of gold brocade, noblewoman in winter clothes, and a noblewoman in green cape with fan. Chromoli...