EditorialBobbin lace scarf with Kashmir feather motifs, Black Bobbin lace scarf: Chantilly lace. A two-sided symmetrical design appears on a coarse and empty grid. At each end a pair of feather or palm motifs like Kashmir shawls, with their topvolutes cutting o...
EditorialModel for the tomb of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp Model for the tomb of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp Sketch and model for the tomb of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598 -1653), The sketch, a raised relief, has a pedestal in the middle, on which a large urn with l...
Editorial"Watering Place. Morning Dress." A lady sits reading by the sea. Her white muslin dress has a "blue silk handkerchief trimmed with lace" acting like a bra or "braces" over each breast. She wears matching green gloves and a scarf tied over a bonnet. She...
EditorialThe Elf Hill. They danced with shawls that were woven of mist and moonshine. . Fairy Tales ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke. F.P. London : G. G. Harrap & Co., [1916]. Source: K.T.C.102.a.15 plate opposite page 182.
EditorialCashmere shawl manufactory. The shawls were hand-made by men from fine 'pashm' wool, which was taken from the downy underfur of a Himalayan mountain goat (Capra hircus) and brought into India from Tibet and Ladakh in the summer season . India, ancient ...
EditorialWoven Hanging, ca. 1820, Made in India, Kashmir, Pashmina wool; double interlocking twill tapestry weave, Textile: L. 54 1/2 in. (138.4 cm), Textiles-Woven, Kashmir was famous for its beautiful shawls made of pashmina, a fine goat's wool, woven in the ...
EditorialShawl, ca. 1805?20, British, Spitalfields, Woven silk, Overall: 8 ft. 11 in. ? 33 in. (271.8 ? 83.8 cm), Textiles-Woven, This woven silk shawl was the English silkweavers? answer to the popularity of the fine wool shawls being imported from the Kashmir...
EditorialPlate 11 from the 'Disparates': Poor Folly, ca. 1816?23 (published 1864), Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin, Plate: 9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (24.5 x 35.3 cm), Prints, Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746?1828 Bordeaux...
EditorialRound Box Brooch, 1000?1100, Made in Gotland, Sweden, Viking, Copper alloy, cast, selectively applied silver foil (OA XRD) ..., Overall: 2 3/8 x 1 in. (6 x 2.5 cm), Metalwork-Copper, Women on the Scandinavian island of Gotland wore box brooches to secu...
EditorialMotif from Kashmir Shawl: Pheerozee (Turquoise Color), No. 23, By Order of Mahummud Azeem Khan, ca. 1822?23, Gouache on paper, varnished, Sheet: 15 7/8 ? 6 7/16 in. (40.3 ? 16.4 cm), Drawings, Anonymous, Indian, 19th century, One of group of eight text...
EditorialPair of Keros, 16th?17th century, Peru, Quechua, Wood, pigmented resin inlay, Height 7 in., Wood-Containers, The counterpoised figures depicted here may echo the traditional Andean worldview of balanced dichotomy. The opposing forces, male figures (in ...
EditorialThe skeleton of Death in cloak and cap dances with a lantern before a dandy in uniform and two beauties in muslin dresses and shawls. The Careless and Careful. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of D...
EditorialCostumes of the indigenous people of Quito, Ecuador. Women in shawls, aprons, skirts and bonnets. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti...
EditorialCostumes of Kyrgyz women in embroidered dresses with cylindrical hats and shawls, fringes, and men with muskets and pitchforks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples o...
EditorialNative Americans of Carolina in capes, shawls and skirts, men with bows and arrows, women with necklaces and tattoos in summer dress. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of t...
EditorialStreet entertainer using a baton to remove a coin from a woman's nose without touching her nose. Audience of fashionable women in bonnets, shawls and dresses with frills. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialMutual borrowing of fashions between French and English women, early 19th century. Both wear identical style bonnets, frilled dresses, shawls and spencer jackets. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialShop girls preparing for bed. Wearing turbans, shawls and lowcut cotton nightshifts, four shopgirls relax before bed. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialRoller coaster at the Barriere du Roule (Place de Ternes, Paris). Fashionable women in bonnets and shawls riding cars down the rollercoaster. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialCaricature of English costumes, circa 1815. Men with flowerpot hats, long coats and trousers worn over boots, women in shawls with tassles. "One can see in the background of these English fashions a few borrowings from Spain with all their national awk...
EditorialAn organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialTheir credulity is her only science. A fortune teller reads the cards for two credulous merveilleuses in shawls and turbans. "The feeble minded consult this woman, whose only secret is that she has persuaded them that she knows everything." Handcoloure...
EditorialEnglish women in the fashion of August 1796. They wear bonnets with feathers, high-waisted dresses with shawls, parasols and fans. Handcoloured etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr. from "English Costumes during the Revolution and First Empire, 179...
EditorialDetail from an illustration of shawl-weavers weaving shawls on a loom. Inscribed in Persian characters with titles and names of implements and equipment. Opaque watercolour. Title of Work: Album Of Kashmiri Trades. Kashmir, 1850-1860. Shelfmark: Add. O...
EditorialActress Elise Hoefer (born 1802),1827 The actress is painted in her dressing room, an elegant boudoir with a collection of Biedermeier nippes and two large shawls. Canvas,68 x 53 cm Inv. N 33.051.
EditorialEmbroidered bags for prayer shawls, from Morocco. Pierced and repoussee silver on velvet. The rooster on the left-hand bag is a symbol of good luck. 28 x 19 cm.