Ever wondered what life was like in New Orleans during the mid-19th century? Step inside the 1850 House Museum and experience a perfectly preserved piece of history!
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#neworleans #frenchquarter #1850House #1850s #museum #history
1853. From: “Tanglewood Tales” (I’m assuming this is from the earliest editions, but I don’t know who that illustrator was.)
#illustration #1850s #NathanielHawthorne #TanglewoodTales
Front view of a pink gauzy crinoline dress with a layered skirt and pale silk bow at the waist. It has layered sleeves and gathered bodices
Front cover of my book The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
A page of textile swatches from Anne Sykes’s dress diary from the mid 19th century
An early start for London, en route to guest lecture at New York University’s UK campus. I’ll be talking to students about The Dress Diary as a case study of nineteenth century practices. #1850s dress #KelvingroveArt #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Painted in 1856 and inscribed “Paris,” this small canvas holds a vivid memory of French artist Camille Pissarro’s birthplace (St. Thomas island in the Caribbean Sea) filtered through distance and reflection. Rather than turning two women into scenery, the composition centers their mutual attention as a pause, a shared space, and an ordinary coordination of bodies carrying weight and time. Two dark-skinned women pause in conversation on a sunlit dirt path beside the sea. We look slightly down at them from a close, human distance. The woman facing us balances a flat tray piled with white cloth on her head, steadying it with one hand. Her long, off-white dress gathers at the hips, still falling to the ankles. A patterned deep green with red and brown headscarf wraps her hair and knots near one ear. The second woman stands with her back to us in an aquamarine dress, a garnet-red scarf tied around her head. A brown basket hangs from her arm. Low shrubs and grasses edge the path, while the shoreline curves inward like a crescent. Farther back, tiny strokes suggest other figures working or wading at the water’s edge. A rust-brown hill meets a pale, milky sky. The tray of linens and the basket hint at daily labor without reducing the women to it. Dignity lives in the upright stance, the steadying hand, and the unhurried exchange. The open shore behind them can represent freedom and openness, but it also quietly evokes a Caribbean shaped by trade, colonial history, and work that kept households and economies running ... often on women’s backs. Long before the broken brushwork of Impressionism, Pissarro was already practicing a kind of attentiveness that respected lived experience, held in light. The young artist relocated to Paris in late 1855 to pursue art seriously, after years split between St. Thomas and an extended spell working as an artist in Venezuela. In 1856, he had started private classes at the École des Beaux-Arts on his way to become a professional painter.
“Deux Femmes Causant au Bord de la Mer, Saint-Thomas” (Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas) by Camille Pissarro (French) - Oil on canvas / 1856 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #CamillePissarro #Pissarro #NationalGalleryofArt #NGA #artText #art #arte #1850s #CaribbeanArt
Thursday Blues
W. Barker & Son 1850s "Royal Cottage" pattern
#art #antique #alatable #antiques #langtrygallery #barkerandson #royalcottage #1850s #blueandwhite #transferware #classicdecor #homedecor #decorativearts #decorativeantiques #interior #design #antiquario #arte #antiquités #staffordshire
""Undine Discovering Herself To The Knight Huldbrand." - By F. Wyburd." The Illustrated London News 15.10.1859.
#FolkloreThursday #Undine #Art #1850s
A complimentary invitation card to the Toronto Typographical Society's anniversary dinner, held at the Old Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday evening, February 16, 1858.
📸: Baldwin Collection of Canadiana
Toronto Public Library
#OnThisDay #1850s #torontohistory #typography #jeremyhopkin
A slightly angled view of a purple/green shot silk ensemble that consists of a long crinoline style dress with a matching shoulder cape. Lace cuffs are just visible beneath the cape
An alternative view of the purple shot silk crinoline, this time without the cape. It shows the pagoda sleeves and the gathering of the bodice into the waist
A view of the purple shot silk crinoline from the back showing the fullness of the skirt and the length of the matching cap which ends at the waist
It was clever of the dressmaker responsible for this early #1850s ensemble to choose green silk fringe as a trim. The shot silk, a warp and weft of different colours, shimmers between green and purple with some hazy shape shifting, @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Valley of the Don, Toronto, 1857
Artist: Georgiana Eyre (1808–98)
Medium: Watercolour with gouache over graphite
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
#1850s #art #donvalley #TorontoHistory #jeremyhopkin
Quick more double-sided body tape! "The Lady of the Camellias" (1995) #1850s #allegedly #AlexandreDumas #CorsetChafing #SnarkWeek FrockFlicks.com
Victor Hugo, 1857. “Fantastic Castle at Twilight”
#drawing #1850s #VictorHugo #inkwaah #charcoal #lithographiccrayon
The Thirtieth Day
Fortunately Mother Nature was being kind to us by sending warmer temps our way which helped to ease the pain of those prior two days. I didn't hear of any ... read more @ niowarealty.net/life/2025/12...
#MasonCity #realestatelife #houseforsell #1850s
"The Return Of Old Christmas. - Drawn By James Godwin."
The Illustrated London News 25.12.1858. #Christmas #ChristmasDay #Victorian #Art #History #1850s
"The Return Of Old Christmas. - Drawn By James Godwin."
The Illustrated London News 25.12.1858.
#FolkyFriday #Victorian #Christmas #Art #History #1850s
It was not uncommon to repair porcelain using iron staples. This one has held together for over 175 years! John Meir 1850s "Vintage" pattern
#art #antique #antiqueart #johnmeir #1850s #antiques #langtrygallery #blueandwhite #19thcentury #interiordesign #artforyourhome #antiquario #arte #antiquités
"Snapdragon. - Drawn By C. Keene.
The room was darkened, and around the flaming dish stood a merry group snatching forth blazing raisins with shouts of boisterous merriment."
The Illustrated London News 25.12.1858.
#FolkloreThursday #Snapdragon #Christmas #Games #1850s
Gustave Le Gray, 1855. “Boats Leaving the Port of Le Havre”
#photography #1850s #LeHavre #GustaveLeGray
Lady Elgin turning the first sod for the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Railway, Toronto, Oct. 15, 1851
#1850s #illustration #railway #railroad #transportation #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Monday Mistake
A scalloped transferware pattern on an ovoid meat platter
Worthington & Harrop 1850s "Asiatic Pheasant" pattern
#art #antique #antiqueart #antiques #1850s #19thcentury #langtrygallery #classicdecor #antiqueporcelain #artforyourhome #blueandwhite #antiquario #arte #antiquités
Pages from The Illustrated London News 25.9.1858, "Harvest Home."
"Harvest Home - Painted By Godwin."
The Illustrated London News 25.9.1858.
#FolkloreSunday #Harvest #History #1850s
Page from The Illustrated London News 4.9.1858 showing the stages of harvesting.
"Harvest Operations.
Reaping.
Carrying.
Stacking.
Gleaning."
The Illustrated London News 4.9.1858.
#FolkloreSunday #Harvest #History #1850s
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#wallart #HistoricalAstronomy #Instruments #1850s #Science #Technology #stars #planets
Illustration and poem from The Illustrated London News 4.9.1858, titled "Reapers' Song to the Harvest Moon." Moonlit view through trees towards a field with harvesters working.
"The Reapers' Song To The Harvest Moon."
The Illustrated London News 4.9.1858.
#FolkloreSunday #Harvest #History #1850s #Art
Le Moniteur de la Mode, 1857 🤍💜🖤
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#1850s #1850sdress #1850sfashion #fashion #fashionplate #fashionillustration #vintagefashion #19thcenturyfashion #vintagedress
The bodice of a bright blue silk moire crinoline style dress with pointed V and broad skirt. It has small brass buttons centre front and pleated pagoda style sleeves with silk tassels
A black and white photograph of a woman wearing a crinoline style silk moiré dress
A rippling sea of blue silk has pooled into the folds of this late #1850s gown, the moiré a lake of textured skirt and bodice. Contemporary photographs of women wearing this fabric must always appear in sepia shades but the reality was very different #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
"Harvest Home - Painted By Godwin.
In England harvest home was the greatest rural holiday of the year, because it concluded at once the most laborious and the most lucrative of the farmers employments, and united repose and profit."
The Illustrated London News 25.9.1858.
#FolkyFriday #Harvest #1850s
A mannequin styled in a late 1850s short puffed sleeve crinoline style gown in pink silk with tiers of net decorating the skirt. It is embellished with silk flowers and bows
The blurry tiers of gauze that cover the pink underskirt of the late #1850s gown makes the wearer appear transient, as if she is not entirely present but about to shape shift into another dimension. Or is that just me? @mfaboston.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
