#victorian bride

[nosferatu-roberteggers]

Ellen Hutter Lilac Bridal Crown (+ Veil)

Ladies' Cabinet: May 1838 // Marcin Jabłoński; “Portret młodej kobiety w welonie” (1838) // Johann Nepomuk Andreas Gebhardt; “Portrait of a Bride” (1830s - 1840s) // Franz Xaver Winterhalter; “Queen Victoria” (detail) (1847)

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

It was many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea...

Read my full review of Living Dead Dolls' Annabel Lee, a dark Gothic take on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, here.

I've spoiled the best part of the doll with this Tumblr post, but it needs to be shown off! Annabel Lee is unique in LDD for having a hidden scary face layer of glow paint that transforms her in the dark and works especially well in colorless video. For having that novelty, I got her doll solo. Poe himself wasn't a doll I needed.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Georgiana (Nina) Chicheley Grey, Lady Grey (1865). Portrait presumably taken for her marriage to William Grey, an English colonial administrator.

via: national portrait gallery

[glitterofthepast]

Duchess Helene of Albany on her wedding day, photo colored by me.

[early20thcenturynerd]

Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria (1878 - 1912) and Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869 - 1955) c. 1900

[fandomaesthetix]

Here comes the bride // Emilia Ricoletti

[ladylabsinthe]

Clarissa Margaret 'Clara' Boehmer, Mrs Frederick Miller (1855-1926), on her wedding day, 1878 (copy of an earlier painting)

[fawnvelveteen]

Helena, Duchess of Albany on her wedding day