Images Dated 16th July 2019

Puss in Boots Puss meets the ogre, Fairy Tales

Vintage engraving of Puss in Boots, Puss meets the ogre who has so much eaten as he could eat, Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault illustrated by Gustave Dore. Puss in Boots, is a later European literary fairy tale about a anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master

Fashionable people at the outdoor dance at Jardin Mabille

Fashionable people at the outdoor dance, Bal Mabille.. Women in wide crinolines and fur capes, man in top hat, jacket and striped trousers. The evening dance at Jardin Mabille, Avenue Montaigne, was held from 1844 to 1875. The Gardens at Mabille, 1858. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzanne's Fashion in Paris, William Heinemann, London, 1898

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Woman in front of the Chinese Baths, Paris, 1849

Woman in front of the Chinese Baths on the Boulevard des Capucines, 1849. Woman in full crinoline, shawl and bonnet. Les bains chinois were built in 1787 by Samson-Nicolas Lenoir and comprised 60 luxury bath cabins, a restaurant, cafe and boutiques. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzanne's Fashion in Paris, William Heinemann, London, 1898

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