Memorabilia is an online database of objects and paintings, representing a virtual gallery for all those interested in the development of luxury and fashion in South-Eastern Europe. The images were gathered by LuxFaSS team members during their research and refer to the following type of sources: iconography (paintings, engravings, lithographs, votive paintings, press); archival documents; objects from museums and art galleries. Each entry has its own identification data (name, date of creation, present holder) and a short comment. Another important tool is a vocabulary’ analysis related to fashion and costume, which will be available soon here, the word being a good companion to image in understanding the cultural connections between different South-Eastern countries.

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Found 127 records.
 
G. Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno, vol. 4, fig. 30
1827
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
 
G. Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno, vol. 4, 35
1827
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
 
G. Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno, vol. 4, fig. 45
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
A British Official dinning with the Kaymakam (= Governor) of Istanbul
 
Watercolour by an anonymous Greek painter
ca 1809
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Circassian worrior chief in his gala costume
 
Litograph made by Aleksander Ludwig Molinari after Edmund Spencer\'s drawing
1837
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Greek lady in an enteri smoking a pipe
 
watercolour by John Collings, 17.7Χ27.7 cm
1810
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
A Jewish woman
 
watercolour by Amadeus Preziosi
ca 1845-1855
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Tatar, or Government courier
 
watercolour by Amadeus Preziosi
ca 1845-1855
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Turkish coffee-house in Constantinople
 
Watercolour made by Amedeo Preziosi
1854
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Turkish woman
 
watercolour by Amadeus Preziosi
ca 1843
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Veiled Turkish Woman
 
A Veiled Turkish Woman by an anonymous Greek painter
ca 1809
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Adam et Eve; Assomption de Mohammed
 
Adam et Eve; Assomption de Mohammed in Mouradgea d’Ohsson, Tableau générale de l’Empire Ottoman, Paris 1787, Tome 1, fig.1-2
1787
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
Ali Pasha
 
Etching, stipple and aquatint by Rovert Havell, after a drawing by Louis Dupré
1819
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Anica Dancovici, wife of merchant Tudor Dancovici
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1830-1835
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Anteriu or Enteri, a Turkish dress
 
Turkish clothing made in a workshop, in Brussa
early 19th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Anteriu or Enteri, a Turkish dress
 
Turkish clothing
early 19th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Anteriu or Enteri, a Turkish dress
 

19th century
© Belgrade City Museum
Bessarabian rug
 
Wool
19th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României -- ''Theodor Pallady'' Museum
Bibliothèque publique
 
Bibliothèque publique in Mouradgea d’Ohsson,Tableau générale de l’Empire Ottoman, tome 1, Paris, 1787, fig. 33
1787
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
Bust of a Woman with a Turban
 
Oil on canvas by Pierre Subleyras
ca 1735
© The Royal Łazienki Museum (Warsaw)
Carved wooden chest, painted and gilded, with a mirror on the side of the lid
 
From Skyros island in the Sporades, max height: 49 cm. , max depth: 43 cm. , max width: 85,5 cm
18th-19th century
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Character And Costume In Turkey and Italy
 
Litograph made by Thomas Allom
ca 1840
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Chest
 
Chest
18th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Veche Românească / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Coffee pot made by Georgius Szathmari
 
Coffee pot made in Transylvania by local master Georgius Szathmari
1830 (Cluj-Napoca / Klausenburg)
© Siebenbürgisches Museum Gundelsheim (Germany)
Colonel of the Janissaries, Major of the new regular troops, Head of Artillery, Major of the reformed troops
 
Litograph made by Achille-Isidore Gilbert after Jean Brindesi\'s drawing
ca 1855
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Constantin Lecca, ”Portrait of Ionașcu Cupețu”
 
oil on canvas, 1,020 x 0,795 m
1860
@Muzeul Național de Artă al României, Secția de Artă Românească Modernă
Cushion cover
 
Made in Turkey with velvet and silk on satin foundation
ca 1700-1730
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Danseuse publique
 
Danseuse publique in Mouradgea d’Ohsson, Tableau générale de l’Empire Ottoman, Paris, 1790, tome 2, fig. 89-90
1790
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
Diadem
 
Made in Bulgaria on silver by an unknown craftsman
ca 1850
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Dignitary costume
 
Dignitary costume
End of 18th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Veche Românească / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Dress
 

mid-19th century
© Belgrade City Museum
Earring
 
Made in Bulgaria on silver by an unknown craftsman
ca 1850
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Elisabeth, Countess of Bridgewater
 
Painting by Charles Jervas
ca 1710-1720
© National Gallery of Ireland
Enfans Musulmans dans le jour de leur Circoncision; Animaux destinés aux sacrifice
 
Enfans Musulmans dans le jour de leur Circoncision; Animaux destinés aux sacrifice in Mouradgea d’Ohsson, Tableau générale de l’Empire Ottoman, Paris, 1787, tome 1, fig. 20-21
1787
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
Entrance to the Port of Constantinople
 
watercolour by Clara Mayer
ca 1794
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Family portrait
 
OIl on canvas by Niccolo Livaditti
1842
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
G. Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno
 
G. Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno, vol. 4, fig. 36
1827
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
Gabriel Decker & Uros Knezevic, ''Princess Persida Karadordevic''
 

1855
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
Garabed Artin Davoud Oghlou Ci-devant Chargé daffaires de Turquie à Berlin
 
watercolour by Godfrey Thomas Vigne
1843
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Gilt belt buckle with filigree and enamelled floral decorations
 
Macedonia. 21,8 X 9 cm
18th century
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Interior of a Turkish Caffinet, Constantinople
 
watercolour by Thomas Allom
ca 1838
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Jacket with decorative buttons
 
Made in Albania on woven silk
1800
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Jakab Marastoni, Mother with children
 
oil on canvas, 48 x 39 cm
1837
©2020 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Johann Martin Stock, Portrait of Count Sámuel Teleki with a Bust-Portrait of Baron Sámuel Bruckenthal
 
painting on copper plate, 41.5 x 33 cm (without frame)
1787
©2020 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Jovan Isajlovic Senior, ''Nikola Virovac, the landowner from Osijek''
 

ca. 1790
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
Kaftan
 
Kaftan
ca 1480
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Veche Românească / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Kaftan
 
Kaftan
ca 1514
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Veche Românească / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Kalina Hadzi Rosu
 
oil on canvas by Katarina Ivanovic
mid-19th century
© Belgrade City Museum
Katarina Ivanovic, ''Anka Topalović née Nenadović''
 

1837
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
Kaymakam, or Governor of Istanbul
 
Watercolour by an anonymous Greek painter
ca 1809
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Konstantin Danil, ''Eufemija Kezan nee Jagodic''
 

ca. 1829-1831
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
Lady in Turkish Dress holding a Fan
 
Painting by Jean-Etienne Liotard
ca 1738-1771
© The Royal Łazienki Museum (Warsaw)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
 
Painting by Charles Jervas
ca 1718-1720
© National Gallery of Ireland
Maria Burada, the wife of great vornic
 
Oil on canvas made by Giovanni Schiavoni
1840
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Masters of Ceremonies, Palace Guard in charge of Harem, Guard of the Old Palace, Muezzin.
 
Litograph made by Achille-Isidore Gilbert after Jean Brindesi\'s drawing
ca 1855
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Miklós Barabás, Portrait of Mrs. Sandor Nikolics the elder
 
oil on canvas, 98 x 75 cm
1858
©2020 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Miklós Barabás, Self-portrait
 
oil on canvas, 85 x 67 cm
1841
©2020 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Miklós Barabás: Arab Man (Dervish)
 
oil on canvas, height: 87 cm (34.2 in); width: 71 cm (27.9 in)
1843
©2020 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Misraba
 

19th century
© Belgrade City Museum
Musulmane faisante la prière
 
Musulmane faisante la prière in Mouradgea d’Ohsson, Tableau générale de l’Empire Ottoman, Paris, 1787, Tome 1, fig. 15
1787
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milano)
Nanule or Oriental footwear
 
wood and nacre
19th century
© Belgrade City Museum
Novak Radonic, ''Konstantin Nikolic, lawyer in Novi Sad''
 

1854
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
Painted wooden jewellery box with a representation of a female figure in a floral setting
 
From the Cyclades, max height: 12,5 cm. , max depth: 16cm. , max width: 34cm.
18th-19th century
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Pasha Ali of Ioannina
 
watercolour on velvet by Maria F. Passano
1824, 25 cm diameter
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Pavel Durkovic, ''A Woman with a Red Scarf (Jelisaveta Vasilijevic)
 

1817
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
Portrait of a boyar holding a book
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1815-1820
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of a Lady
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1820-1830
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of a Lady
 
Oil on canvas by Eustatie Altini
1813-1815
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of a Man
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1829-1836
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of a woman
 
Oil on canvas by Mihail Topler
ca 1812-1818
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of a woman
 
Oil on canvas by Miklos Barabas
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of a woman
 
Oil on canvas by Barbu Iscovescu
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of a woman from Wesselenyi family
 
Oil on canvas by Joseph Neuhauser
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of a Young Lady with a Fan
 
Oil on canvas by Joseph August Schofft
1835
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Alexandru Racotta
 
Oil on canvas by Constantin Lecca
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of Andreas Enyeter
 
Painting by Johann Oelhan d. Ä.
1761 (Brașov / Kronstadt)
© Siebenbürgisches Museum Gundelsheim (Germany)
Portrait of Âdile Hanim, a Turkish woman from Constantinople
 
watercolour by Amadeus Preziosi
1854
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Portrait of clucer Iorgu Costacopol
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1820-1830
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Dr. Grunau
 
Oil on canvas by Constantin David Rosenthal
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of Eszter Sombori
 
Oil on canvas by Simo Ferenc de Kissolymossay
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of Franciscus Rhedey
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of great clucer Mihăiță Filipescu
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
Before 1850
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of hatman Manolache Manu
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
1841
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Ienăchiță Văcărescu
 
oil on canvas by Anton Chladek
ca 1852-1858
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Ioan Caragea, Prince of Wallachia
 
oil on canvas by Pavel Djurkovici
1824
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of merchant Tudor Dancovici
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1830-1835
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Mihail Darvari
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
19th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Painter's Mother. Detail
 
Oil on canvas by Misu Popp
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of poet Alecu Văcărescu
 
oil on canvas by Anton Chladek
Before 1860
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Rödl Andras
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of Rödl Andras's wife
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of Safta Castrisoaia
 
oil on canvas by Pavel Djurkovici
1825
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of serdar Constantin Andronescu
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
1836
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Sophia Mariassy
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of Sultana Manu, nee Mavrogheni
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
1839
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of vornic Teodor Burada
 
Oil on canvas made by Giovanni Schiavoni
1840
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of Young Lanaru
 
Oil on canvas by Constantin David Rosenthal
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Portrait of Zara Papp
 
Oil on canvas by Franz Anton Bergman
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Prince of Wallachia, Ioannis G. Karatzas
 
miniature portrait
18th century
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Princess of Wallachia
 
Guache drawing owned by Edmund Kean
18h century
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Reception Room in the house of the Turkish Pascha - New Orsova
 
drawing by John Richard Cooke Smyth
1835
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Rifle adorned with silver and gold belonging to Ali Pasha of Ioannina
 
Rifle made in the Joseph Manton workshop
1821, 114 cm, London
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Schneckenheftel
 
Jewelry worn on festive occasions, made by Bartholomaus Bartesch
17th century
© Siebenbürgisches Museum Gundelsheim (Germany)
Self-portrait
 
Oil on canvas by Szathmári Gáti István
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Self-portrait by polcovnic Nicolae
 
Oil on canvas
1825-1828
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Sfesnice imparatesti
 
Wallachia
1829
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Veche Românească / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Silver belt buckle decorated with enamelled decorations, corals
 
max height: 11,5 cm. , max width: 31,5 cm
1837
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Silver bottle with lid decorated with niello
 
It contained eye make-up, 9,3 cm. height
19th century
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Silver-gilt buckles
 
Silver-gilt buckles made in a South-Danubian workshop
End of 18th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Silver-gilt buckles
 
Silver-gilt buckles with pearls and stones made in a Russian workshop
19th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Smaranda Catargi
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1840-1845
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Snuffbox
 
Gold box, enameled and with diamonds made by Pierre-Etienne Théremin
1800
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Sofia Kretzulescu-Lahovary
 
oil on canvas by Gheorghe Tattarescu
1852
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
The Albanian Mercenary
 
Oil on canvas by Constantin Lecca
1835-1845
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
The Great Boyar (Ban) Brâncoveanu (1764-1832)
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter
ca 1830-1832
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
The landowner Ana Balș
 
Oil on canvas by Niccolo Livaditti
1852
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
The Portrait of a Young Man
 
Oil on canvas by an anonymous painter (probably Carol Wallenstein)
ca 1829-1836
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Românească Modernă / The National Museum of Art of Romania
The Prince Soutzo
 
Drawing made by George Hayter in Italy, at Pisa
1827
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Ulioara Castle
 
Oil on canvas by Joseph Neuhauser
© Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj-Napoca / The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Throne
 
Throne
Moldavia, mid-16th century
© Muzeul Național de Artă al României. Galeria de Artă Veche Românească / The National Museum of Art of Romania
Turkish Musicians in a coffee-house overlooking the Bosphorus
 
Watercolour made by Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet
1846
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Une Demoiselle Grecque de Livadie
 
Watercolour by Louis Dupré
1819
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Uros Knezevic, ''Duke Stefan Knicanin''
 

1849
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
View of Mount Emo [Haemus] or Great Balkan in Bulgaria with guards assembled to collect a toll from travellers
 
Watercolour by Luigi Mayer
ca 1800
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Woman of Fanari
 
Woman of Fanari, Constantinople, wearing a sumptuous town dress ornamented with ermine and precious stones, Jean Baptiste Van Moor (1671-1737)
18th century, oil painting, 34 x 26 cm.
©2020 Benaki Museum, Athens
Women greeting travellers by throwing barley to them, observed near the village of Ciala Kavak [Kawak] in Bulgaria
 
Watercolour by Luigi Mayer
ca 1794-1795
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Young Boy in Turban with Heron's Plume
 
Oil on canvas by Mlle Duneuf-Germain
ca 1769-1772
© The Royal Łazienki Museum (Warsaw)