Fan with a darling little image of a fashionably dressed lady playing the harp. I love the hat! #18thc #dresshistory

Lovely for Windows on Wednesday and also for #ChandelierSunday! Thanks for sharing, @johnbcaddell.bsky.social 🌸

Please can we have all this beauty last forever? 🌱🌺🌸 📍South Kensington, London SW7

Frontispiece for Francis Lawrence Bickley's  "The Adventures of Harlequin" by John Austen, 1923. #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration

#ChandelierSunday "Light the Way" The Sanctuario of Madonna di Montalto. Built in 1295 the original church was destroyed by an earthquake in 1908 rebuilt in 1911. The apse & front of the church were inverted in 1928 so the entrance faces Messina. #Photography #WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes

Oh, a honeysuckle-hat! Dashing! Long before Cicely Mary Barker, French caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803 – 1847), generally known as "Grandville", turned flowers into humans shapes. #18thc/#19thc

Art for #ChandelierSunday

Art for #ChandelierSunday Thanks for sharing, @anne-t-melo.bsky.social 🌼

Golden rain for #ChandelierSunday Thanks for sharing, @missmouse.bsky.social 🌺

Art for #ChandelierSunday Thanks for sharing, @icyvelvet.bsky.social 🌸

Art for #chandelierSunday Thanks for sharing, @alaintruong.bsky.social 🌼

📷️Nikon Zf 📸PENTAX Auto-Takumar 1:1.8 f=55mm Zebra #photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf

In 1927, John Austen (1868-1948) designed a set of 93 #GoldenAgeofIllustration sets for Byron's "Don Juan", transitioning his Beardsleyesque art nouveau style to something more art deco. Many are - like Byron - certainly NSFW, let alone Bluesky - find them below: archive.org/details/donj...

#ReadingHeyer Nicely done

#SaturdayOrange 🧡 I am continuing to sift through unposted butterfly photos from last year. Expect a flurry of postings… Gulf Fritillary butterfly on a double Zinnia #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Crocuses spotted flowering under a hedge in Ely. 📷 #photography

Fashion Gallery: 1740–1760 regency-explorer.net/fashion-gall... Enjoy more than 30 photos of glamorous fashion for ladies and gentlemen. #18thc #18thcentury

A double treat for Friday. L Robe à l’anglaise, French, cotton, metal & silk, late 1780s. R Robe à la française, French, silk, mid-late C18th.

How to dress like a knight in 1820 (costume worn on 30. September 1820 by Talleyrand when he was made a Knight of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit)

Snowdrop season... its the little things #photography #snowdrops

Russian Emperor Peter III was born #OnThisDay in 1728. This officer's uniform of the Life-Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment dates to the six months of Peter's brief reign in 1762 before he was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by his wife. Hermitage collection. #fashionhistory

Pouch https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/102970

Mules, first quarter 17th century, #English (Met Museum)

Charting out women's hairstyle heights of the eighteenth century for a video I'm working on 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

Ferocious Tiger (Mouko-zu) by Maruyama Ōkyo This detailed view from a 1765 hanging scroll by the master painter Maruyama Ōkyo showcases his pioneering "shasei" (sketching from life) style, even when depicting a creature he likely never saw in person.

We have a handful of #18thc stays at the Fenimore. This set is in quite good shape, and since it's missing its lining, we can see all of the interesting details of construction. (Full 360 of photos at the link!) collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/5219...

📷️Nikon Zf 📸KIRON 105mm F2.8 MACRO #photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf

She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, & slush crunching beneath her feet & the sound made by trapezoidal sections of melting snow falling from wires overhead. 📓Pattern Recognition, 2003 🖊️William Gibson (US-Canadian Writer) 🖼️Lady in The Snow, 1930s 🎨Stanislaus Longley (Aylesbury Artist)

212th Anniversary of the Great Stock Exchange Fraud 21 February is a date which was deeply ingrained in Thomas Cochrane's mind and to the end of his life he referred to 21 February as 'the day of my ruin'. On this day in 1814 news that Napoleon.... #LordCochrane #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Man dressed in a sky-blue coat with high collar, trimmed with scarlet piping and lined with scarlet cloth, yellow breeches, gaiter-boots of brown and black leather. Hat à l’Androsmane with black cockade. Magasin des modes nouvelles, françaises et anglaises 1787. BnF #dresshistory #FashionPlateFriday

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. ~Victor Hugo

Wenn das Glück um die Ecke schaut

Who else needs a coffee?

Before we end the #PalaisGalliera 's Worth: Inventor of Haute Couture exhibit, I am going to do a few posts showing some other non-outfit posts that the museum had on display. One such incredible collection of items was these sketches of Worth's fancy dress costumes from #VandAMuseum.

The Coast is Clear. #Art © Rebecca Vincent

Guten Morgen! Andrea Belvedere, * 1652 in Neapel; † 1732 ebd. war ein italienischer Maler 🎨🇮🇹 Blumenstillleben mit Pfau 🖼️ #FlowerFriday #Stilllife #ArtHistory #BskyArt

It's cold, damp, and dreary so here is a vision of sunnier days Dark morph female Tiger Swallowtail on buddleia from August 2022 Nature is amazing #Naturephotography #Butterflies

Jade vine at Kew Gardens two years ago Hardly seems real #HistoricGardens #BlueskyArtShow

#PalacesandGardens #HistoricGardens 🇬🇧 The largest castle in the Netherlands - De Haar - with part of the rose garden. (1892, Neo-Gothic). 🇩🇪 Das größte Schloss der Niederlande - De Haar - mit einem Teil des Rosengartens. (1892, Neogotisch) #EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotoHour #thewildimages

Spring Reopening for #PalacesAndGardens theme is #HistoricGardens. #EastCoastKin #photography #cyclamen #spring #bluesky #Tudor #visitors #Cheshire #LittleMoretonHall #history (iPhone camera)

#PalacesAndGardens #HistoricGardens Dornburger Schlösser und Gärten #EastCoastKin #photography

Laurie @laurieagard.com shares a great shot of the spectacular gardens of Villandry for #PalacesandGardens #HistoricGardens:

Good morning. For my friend Sabine’s wonderful theme. Here’s a Butterfly and friend at the gardens at Downhill Demesne. #Ireland #PalacesAndGardens #HistoricGardens #photography #EastCoastKin

Signs of spring at the estate of Hever Castle for #Palacesandgardens, themed #HistoricGardens.

Swan lake - a variation for #Palacesandgardens, themed #HistoricGardens. (Stourhead Gardens, UK)

early spring writes poetry with flowers