Eighteen-hundreds

Card 864, Clara Morris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes. ca. 1888. Credit line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/415740

This dress can be found in: the London Museum

Eliza Cook's Journal, May, 1850

Le Bon Ton, v. 39, pl. 124, août 1858, Paris. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

London Museum

Louis and Alice of Hesse

RISD Museum

Reading in Bed (The Slipper). 1858. Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/372495

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Union Meetings in the Open Air Outside the Academy of Music, December 19, 1859 (from “Harper’s Weekly,” Vol. III). January 7, 1860. Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/392142

Aktstudie (Study of a female model) (c. 1853) by Amalia Lindegren (Swedish, 1814 – 1891), signed bottom left ‘Amalia Lindegren fc’, oil on canvas, 33.5 cm (13.1 in) x 26.5 cm (10.4 in) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Born to prominent Spanish nobility, Eugénie was educated in France, Spain, and England. As Empress, she used her influence to champion "authoritarian and clerical policies"; her involvement in politics earned her much criticism from contemporaries. Napoléon and Eugénie had one child together, Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856–1879). After the fall of the Empire, the three lived in exile in England; Eugénie outlived both her husband and son and spent the remainder of her life working to commemorate their memories and the memory of the Second French Empire.

Illustration from Varney the Vampyre or The Feast of Blood, serialized gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest (attributed), 1845-47

Giovanni Strazza

Dress with two bodices, c.1865

Young Girl with a Basket of Flowers (Adolphe Piot, 1831 - 1910)

Royal Collection Trust