19th Century Blog

An exploration of the 1800s through art, fashion, literature, photography.  

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening coat, 1870-1900.

[0fficelady]

crochet sampler book, late 19th century

[eirene]

Le Fifre Italien, 1863 Henri Lehmann

[vintageeveryday]

Photochrom prints of Warsaw in 1890.

[1800snostalgia]

are u a vampire

... 🧛‍♀️💗

[1800snostalgia]

hello! I found this pic from Pinterest. can I use this for my fan fiction content? I need your permission, thank you!

Go for it. I don't own copyright to the image though

[1800snostalgia]

How is December treating you all??

[1800snostalgia]

Sorry, I don't post very often. But I hope everyone here is well and safe. Sending you all my best for 2021.

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.” - Edgar Allan Poe

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Dress.

Date: 1850-1856

Place of origin: Netherlands

[wildestically]

“…the artistic life is a long and lovely suicide.”

— Oscar Wilde, in a letter to H.C. Marillier - December 12, 1885.

[mysteriousartcentury]

Jane Morris by John Robert Parsons, Summer 1865.

[undr]

Thomas Annan. Glasgow. 1868

[twirld]

Femme Endormie (1867) Sándor Liezen-Mayer

[historium]

Shepherds in Gascony, France wearing traditional stilts called tchangues (“big legs”) that allowed them to walk on the marshy ground, ca. 1895

[lionofchaeronea]

The Letter (A Classical Maiden), John William Godward, 1899

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Willem Geets (Belgium, 1838-1919)

Young Woman Reading

[dutch-and-flemish-painters]

Willem Geets (Mechelen, January 20, 1838 - there, January 19, 1919) was a Belgian painter.