Swan in white with pale coloured fibres Burlesque This corset is based on

This corset is based on a design from the 1893-1984 fall and winter catalogue of Boston store Jordan

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based on a design from an 1888 Work Bros

My little paper darlings are based on a 1792 illustration from Bewick’s ‘A General History of Quadrupeds’

the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession C

Swan in white with pale coloured fibres Burlesque This corset is based onThis swan is based on an illustration of Der Schwan from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on