Evening dress by House of Worth, 1910. Whitaker Auctions.

The Bride of Lammermoor, by English painter John Everett Millais (1878). Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

Sugar bowl made by Christofle & Co., enamelled by Antoine Tard, 1867. Paris, France. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Front cover of La Vie Parisienne, 30th April 1927.

Necklace, 1902. Birmingham, England. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Interior of Miller and Shoemaker Soda Fountain. Photographed in 1899.

Evening dress by House of Worth, 1866-68. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

L'edera (The Ivy), by Italian painter Tranquillo Cremona (1878). Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino.

Boots by F. Pinet, 1877-78. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Portrait of American writer Edith Wharton and her dogs. Photographed by E.F. Cooper. Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 1889-1890. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Screen, ebonised wood, with fretwork and gilding, and six panels of Japanese paper; designed by W.E. Nesfield and made by James Forsythe for Richard and Agnes Shaw, British 1867. Victoria & Albert Museum.

The Chimera, by French painter Gustave Moreau (1867). Fogg Museum.

Day dress, 1846-49. Glasgow Museums.

Replica of Empress Elisabeth of Austria's coronation gown by House of Worth, 1867. Sisi Museum at the Imperial Apartments Hofburg Palace, Wien.

At The Park Gate, by English painter John Atkinson Grimshaw (1878). In private collection.

Ring, faceted aquamarine set in gold, made in Western Europe, 1800-69. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Ziegfeld Follies girl Kay White. Photographed by Edwin Bower Hesser, 1922.

Boy's dress, 1865. England. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.