spiffingsailor:

HMS Surprise, being her usual beautiful self.

suicideblonde:

Sleeping Beauty (1910) by Edmund Dulac

antithesister:

Mia Wasikowska in a dress by Alexander Mcqueen. Picture from W Magazine.

18thcenturylove:

18th c. Men’s Uniforms in Portraits!

1.) Washington of the VA Regiment from the French and Indian War by Charles Wilson Peale

2.) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by Henry Benbridge

3.) George III by Sir Henry William Beechey

4.) Baron [Friedrich Wilhelm] von Steuben by Ralph Earl

5.) Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette by Joseph-Désiré Court

6.) Marquess Charles Cornwallis by John Singleton Copley

7.) Lt Col. Francis Smith, Leader of the British forces at the Battles of Lexington and Concord by Francis Cotes

8.) Marinus Willett by Ralph Earl

9.) General Sir William Maxwell by Henry Raeburn

10.) Portrait of Horatio Nelson by Jean Francis Rigaud

Collinwood.

heavenshallremember:

wycherley:

John Singleton Copley (1737-1815), Portrait of Gulian Verplanck (detail), 1771

what are you trying to do to me with your cravat and waistcoat and coat and sleeve ruffle and silver buttons

who, sir, gave you permission to be so destructive

lostsplendor:

Curious Cuff Collection (via Serrelynda on Etsy)