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#Frockingfabulous florals by #AlexanderMcQueen... it's so vibrant, I love it. #Fashionhistory of 2001. Via the Met
April 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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'Biarritz' plate. Clarice Cliff. c. 1930.
Image: Sotheby's.
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Balustrade for The Willow Tea Rooms. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1903.
Image: Sotheby's.
April 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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There is so much going on with this #Frockingfabulous gown by #Valentino, but I've a feeling it's going to be a Marmite frock! #Fashionhistory of 1989, via Christies.
April 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Spring Flowers by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912).
February 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Willard Metcalf - May Night, 1906
December 19, 2023 at 2:12 PM
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Jan van Huysum - Fruit Piece, 1722
December 19, 2023 at 2:19 PM
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Gaetano Chierici - Joys of Childhood, 1878
December 25, 2023 at 3:00 PM
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🎨 Moonlight in Istanbul, 1910s

"Tears flowed from my eyes like vast seas,
Friends saw much, yet my fortune found no peace.
For your wandering image to cross my flood of tears,
My brows are a bridge, with one pillar and two arches."

✏️ Mehmed Neşrî, 15th Century
#Poem #Poetry #15thCentury
March 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Still Life with apple/quince and lizard (mid 1600's) by Giovanna Garzoni, Italian Baroque era artist #WomensArt
March 14, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Japanese master Kawase Hasui concentrates on the effects of moonlight in this woodblock print of a peaceful night at Lake Hachirogata. Akita (1927)
March 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Admiring the beauty, precision and subtle shadows in these pages from the rare Book of Flower Studies, by the Master of Claude of France (c 1510) ~ dandelion with caterpillar ■ iris with dragonfly
www.metmuseum.org/art/online-f...
March 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Paris.
House of Paquin,
3 Rue de la Plaix.

Dress, c.1900.

Cotton & lace.
This 'lingerie dress', was worn for informal occasions such as garden parties. The fabrics are sheer but a full compliment of undergarments were worn underneath.

© Museum at FIT
#FAshionHistory 🪡 🗃️
March 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Standing guard over the boundary between land and water, the great grain-grinding mill at Wijk bij Duurstede. Immortalized in 1670 by Jacob van Ruisdael, whose day is today.
March 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The silent light of God's Mercy – Laura Makabresku
November 28, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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19th century German hunting knife.

On an unrelated note, it's my birthday in 2 weeks.
November 28, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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Match Box Bats including Swedish Puck with bat & vintage Japanese designs including c. 1900 vampire bat.
December 1, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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The Tooth Worm as Hell’s Demon’, the 18th-century depiction of the tooth worm believed by many in the past to bore holes in teeth and cause toothaches.⁠
December 13, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Harry Clarke, endpapers to 'Faust' by Goethe (1925).
December 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Dracula, first edition by Bram Stoker, published in Westminster in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company. Bound in black leather with a gilded bat motif on the cover and crescent moon and star embellishments on the spine.
January 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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'Ultimate Joy', painting by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter who uses the techniques of pointillism #womensart
February 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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📷 Ottoman Children Studio Photos, 1890s-1910s
February 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Margaretha de la Faille enframed by scads of gold putti, painted in 1674 by Jan Verkolje (born this day 1650).
March 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Maya Veshnik,
contemporary Ukrainian batik artist #WomensArt
February 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🎨 A Jewish Woman from Istanbul, 1850 #Jewish #History #FashionHistory
March 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM