o dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet

Pandore (Pandora), (Detail), (1890), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 – 1905), signed and dated 'W.BOUGUEREAU 1890' (lower left), oil on canvas, 36½ x 25½ in. (92.5 x 64.5 cm.), Private Collection

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

The Passer-By (Le Passant), ca. 1898 Robert Engels

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Paradise (also known as Le Paradis Perdu/Paradise Lost), (Detail), (c. 1867), by Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889), oil on canvas, 121.9 × 94 cm (48.2 × 36.7 in), The Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Evening dress, 1883

Water Lily, 1880. Martin Johnson Heade. Oil on canvas.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mermaid pendants were popular items of jewelry in the 19th century, and this example belonged to Queen Victoria. The figure is formed from pearls and gold and has a deep-green and blue enamelled tail set with rubies.

Elihu Vedder. ' The Heart of The Rose ', ca. 1891-1892.

[Seated Young Woman with Hand Raised to Jawline]. 1840s–50s. Credit line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/291784

(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

— Elizabeth Siddall, excerpt of “It Is Not Now a Longing Year”, in My Ladys Soul : Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall

Augusto Corelli - Capri. Evening by the Sea (ca. 1890)

Les Modes parisiennes, no. 73, 21 juillet 1844, Paris. Chapeau de paille de riz de Mme Stephanie, Rue Neuve des Petits-Champs, 93. Robe de soie et Robe de tarlatane bordée en paille, façons de Melle Duguet, Rue de Louvais, 6. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Evening dress, 1898. Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum.

A coffee pot, creamer, and sugar bowl from the Seagull dinnerware line designed by Fanny Garde of Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark,  in 1895