tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1904
via
vintagegal:

myrna loy c. 1931
tilda swinton in orlando forever.
0800pink:

Jessica Stam #5
theduchessxx:

toilet of venus, jena honore fragonard
fructusvitae:

Madame de Pompadour/Jeanette Antoinette Poisson
(François Boucher)
tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a young girl holding a doll and an anonymous hand], Charles Evans
via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive
cavetocanvas:

George Barbier, Grande Robe du Soir en Brocart d’Argent, 1914
somethingvain:

Christian Lacroix Haute Couture S/S 2004, Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia

Charles Darwin Cross writing (technique used for saving paper), 1828My dear Fox  I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects: — my only reason for writing, is to remove a heavy weight from my mind, so now you must understand, what you will perceive before you come to the end of this; that I am writing merely for my own pleasure & not your’s. — I have been very idle since I left Cambridge in every possible way & amongst the rest in Entomology. I have however captured a few insects, about which I am much interested: My sister has made rough drawings of three of them…