Anno 1790

Posted Oct 24, 2011 at 10:36 CEST in Movies and television.

A new 18th century tv series is coming soon to Swedish tv, Anno 1790. Apparently it’s a crime series set in the 1790s, though from the trailers it seems to be set at least 20 years earlier.

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Updated museum links

Posted Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 CEST in The blog.

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I updated some links in the museums section. See the new links for the Kyoto Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Livrustkammaren.

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Before the Automobile

Posted Sep 26, 2011 at 11:06 CEST in Blogs, Costuming, Fashion, and Links.

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I just found this via Isis’ Wardrobe.

Before the Automobile is an absolutely amazing costuming blog by a Finnish girl with some of the best 18th century costumes I’ve seen. She also makes beautiful 19th century costumes.

My favourite post is one about making her own 18th century shoes, something I have been planning for some time. Maybe now I’ll finally get around to making a pair!

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Women’s Hairstyles & Cosmetics of the 18th Century

Posted Aug 17, 2011 at 16:27 CEST in Fashion and Links.

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You should check out this lovely, informative and well researched article on 18th century hairstyles and cosmetics over at Démodé.

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The Tischbein family

Posted Aug 16, 2011 at 09:23 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Johanna Constantia, 1780s.

The Tischbein family was a German family of painters of who the most well known appear to be Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, Johann Friedrich August Tischbein and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein.

Due to all these artists sharing the same name there seems to be total confusion on the internet regarding who has made which painting (Wikipedia attributes one painting from 1796 to a Tischbein who died in1789…). I haven’t managed to figure it out myself and therefore will show all the Tischbein paintings I have found in this post, but will only state the artists of the ones I’m fairly sure of. If you can shed any light on the subject (perhaps you know in which museums some of these are kept?), do tell!

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