FLO4676980: Costume d'une femme de la nobility Siennoise (Italy), 14th century - Noble woman of Siena, in luxurious crown of gold, silver necklace and fringed violet dress, from a painting by Domenico Bartoli, 14th century - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677051: Costume d'une jeune femme francaise, 14th century - Costume of a young French woman, 14th century, from the Titius Livius manuscript - She wears her hair tied with black laces, a white dress embroidered with gold, and long bizarre cracows (shoes “” a la poulaine”””””) - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677070: Costume d'un valet, 14th century - Costume of a valet, 14th century - He wears a red hood with white border, tabard of the same fabric, lead-coloured stockings and silver spurs - He carries a dagger in a red scabbard - From a manuscript of “” Lancelot of the Lake”” in the Imperiale Library, 6964 - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677083: King Edward III of England (1312-1377) - King Edward III of England, 14th century, in blue cape trimmed with ermine, red tunic bordered with gold - From his sepulchral monument in Westminster Abbey, London, with gold crown from the monument to Henry III, sceptre from paintings of Richard II, and throne from an ancient manuscript - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677154: Costume d'un jeune homme italien, 14eme century - Costume of a young Italian man, 14th century - He wears a tabard with a blue-and-white striped right side, and beige left side with hood over the shoulder - From a miniature in the Titus Livius manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677328: Young man in chenille yarn jacket, tie, gloves, trousers, top hat and stick. When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery, wooden heels, huge sneakers, that were found majestic or convenient by our fathers.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677351: A young fashionable man shows a girl how to play with a Diabolo (Chinese yo-yo). “Expertise on the Diabolo is now indispensable. A father who wants to raise his children properly has to engage tutors in drawing, music and dance, and a professor of Diabolo.” Handcoloured engraving by Gatine from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677834: Wonderful playing the game of blind man's buff. A blindfolded woman runs in a garden as one woman strokes her hand and another grabs her muslin dress. Another woman crouches near a chair and covers her head with a shawl. It can be played inside, or in a defined exterior. The blindfolded person has to guess the name of the person who touches her.” Illustration by Dominique Bosio. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677718: Breakfast. Gentlemen in coat tails and breeches and ladies in veils and dresses share a breakfast of coffee and bread. Great familiarity reigns in the morning, one has no time to become ceremonial, breakfast is the honest meal.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677735: A woman is pampered by her seamstress, her clothes seller, her hairdresser and two chambermaids. As Montesquieu said, “” For one man to live deliciously, one hundred others must work tirelessly.”” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677876: Evening party at Coblenz (between rue Taitbout and rue Neuve-Lepelletier, Paris). A group of women and children (including a black woman) sit listening to music from a hurdygurdy man and woman with tambourine. “” In 1791-1792, the previously unfashionable Boulevard des Italians became the favorite promenade for the royalist partisans. To be seen there was a public profession of aristocracy, an enlistment in the army of the princes, an espousal of the interests and opinions of the French refugees in Koblentz. After 1795, it became the fashionable place for incredible, wonderful, and muscadins. At night from 6 til midnight, up to 4,000 people jostled, elbowed and bumped along this street.”” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4672260: Outfit of a wealthy London merchant, in the time of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), wearing a long sleeve embroidered coat on red stockings. According to Gasper Rutz, 1588. Lithograph by Charles Martin, engraving by Leopold Martin, published in “” Costumes civils d'Angleterre depuis la conquete au nos jours”, 1842, London. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4671924: Woman in a pierrot jacket and petticoat in striped satin, hat-hat with satin ribbons and plumes, and a muff made of swan feathers. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The journal of Madame Eloffe, dressmaker and linen-merchant to the Queen and ladies of the court. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4671972: Woman in a gauze pouf hat decorated with ribbons and plumes, and woman in a gauze pouf hat decorated with artificial roses and plumes. Both in hairstyles of ringlets and curls by M. Depain of the rue du Theatre-Francais. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The journal of Madame Eloffe, dressmaker and linen-merchant to the Queen and ladies of the court. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4671987: Fashionable hats of 1788. Straw hat with violet ribbons and plumes, a pouf a la preresse with blue gauze and taffeta ribbon diadem, and a straw hat with pink taffeta, black ribbons and flowers. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The journal of Madame Eloffe, dressmaker and linen-merchant to the Queen and ladies of the court. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4672013: Hairstyles of Josephine de Beauharnais, 1788, later wife to Napoleon, from murals in the bathrooms at Malmaison in the Roman style. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The journal of Madame Eloffe, dressmaker and linen-merchant to the Queen and ladies of the court. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4672172: Men's costume at the time of Henri VII (1457-1509), wearing a short coat with long sleeves on a purdot and high shoes. According to the Harleian manuscript. Lithograph by Charles Martin, engraving by Leopold Martin, published in “” Costumes civils d'Angleterre depuis la conquete au nos jours”, 1842, London. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4672192: Man's costume in the time of Richard III (1452-1485), wearing a long sleeve tunic on ecarlate stockings. From a royal manuscript. Lithograph by Charles Martin, engraving by Leopold Martin, published in “” Costumes civils d'Angleterre depuis la conquete au nos jours”, 1842, London. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4671964: Woman in large striped hat-hat over a gauze night cap, and woman in black felt hat with feather trim, ribbons and plumes. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The journal of Madame Eloffe, dressmaker and linen-merchant to the Queen and ladies of the court. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4672014: Hairstyles of Josephine de Beauharnais, 1788, later wife to Napoleon, from murals in the bathrooms at Malmaison in the Roman style. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The journal of Madame Eloffe, dressmaker and linen-merchant to the Queen and ladies of the court. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4672060: King Henry III Plantagenet (1207-1272), behind him, a falconer, based on representations from Westminster Abbey (England) and royal manuscripts. Lithograph by Charles Martin, engraving by Leopold Martin, published in “” Costumes civils d'Angleterre depuis la conquete au nos jours”, 1842, London. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4672143: Blanche de la Tour (1342-1342), daughter of Edward III (1312-1377). Dead child represented by a young woman after her monument in St Edward's Chapel in Westminster (England). Lithograph by Charles Martin, engraving by Leopold Martin, published in “” Costumes civils d'Angleterre depuis la conquete à nos jours”, 1842, London. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4668820: Italian millet, Setaria italica, and rice, Oryza sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, and in English manuscript. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4668840: Einkorn wheat, Triticumum monococum, rye, Secale cereale, and barley variety, Hordeum vulgare distichon. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, and in English manuscript. / Bridgeman Images