art-history:

Ammi Phillips 
Mrs. Mayer and Daughter  1835-40 
Oil on canvas  38 x 34¼ in 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 

In order to facilitate his work, Phillips developed a formula for his portraits but then imaginatively individualized each one. Here, the artist’s masterful design abilities are evident in the cleanly contained forms of the mother and child, enriched by the use of brilliant saturated color and careful detail. The sitters are probably from Litchfield County, Connecticut, or Dutchess County, New York.

—Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Most Epic of all the Epic Caps of the world! 

carolathhabsburg:

This is the first photographed woman ever, Dorothy Catherine Draper. Picture by her brother John William Draper, 1840

Stunning!

omgthatdress:

Cap ca. 1840 via The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

*whimper…*