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ARISTOCRATIC SWINGINGA beautiful young woman is pushed on a swing by a dashing chap. Date: 18th century
18TH CENTURY GARDENPARTYA garden party on an aristocratic estate - dancing on the lawn for some, gossip and flirtation for others Date: circa 1740
GREECE / ARISTOCRATIC LADYAristocratic ladies and a Priestess. Date: circa 500 BC
SOCIAL / GERMANY / ARISTOSAristocratic scene showing a feast and other activities Date: 14th century
ARISTOCRATIC HOUSEHOLDAn aristocratic household gather for their devotions in the chapel at Moat House, Ightham, Kent
Hunting party picnicAn aristocratic hunting party breaks for lunch: a picnic on the grass. Date: mid 18th century
Cartoon, Dilettanti TheatricalsContemporary society. Cartoon, Dilettanti Theatricals, or, a Peep at the Green Room, Vide Pic-Nic Orgies, by James Gillray
Afternoon tea in a fashionable French home. Date: 1905
Satire on womens pursuit of aristocratic statusA satire on womens pursuit of aristocratic status in marriage, showing women angling for fish wearing crowns of the peerage. Date: circa 1840
Satire on the way love worships ancestryA satire on the way Love Worships Ancestry -- the inflated respect for ancestry and aristocratic status -- showing Cupid kneeling to an heraldic device with a crown on top. Date: 1890
The Little Duchess, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, a production by Robert Courtneidge. circa 1922
The House from the Parterre - Cliveden, Buckinghamshire. Date: circa 1980s
A British Beauty in a very fine dressA hand-tinted postcard photograph of a British Beauty in a very fine dress. Date: circa 1910s
Duchess of MarlboroughPortrait of Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877 - 1964), American heiress and first wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
Medieval hunting scene -- a man and a woman on horseback, with birds of prey and dogs. Date: early 20th century
Lady Violet AstorViolet Astor, Lady Astor of Hever (n饠 Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound) DStJ (28 May 18893 January 1965), daughter of the 4th Earl of Minto and the wife of John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever
Lord Burghley engaged to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-ScottDavid George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905 - 1981), Lord Burghley, athlete, sports official and Conservative party politician pictured at the time of his engagement to Lady Mary
Wedding of Lord Lovat and Hon Laura ListerThe wedding of Lord Lovat (Brigadier-General Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat, 1871-1933) and the Hon Laura Lister (daughter of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale) at the Brompton Oratory
Monkeys and dogs on a Christmas card -- The Swell Sportsman. Date: circa 1890s
HM Bateman evacuees cartoonLady Biggleswades evacuees object to game on alternate day as being monotonous. An upper class family are dismayed to discover complaints about the meals from their temporary guests during the Second
Debutante women modelling the lastest fashion 1913Upper class women wearing the latest winter garments. 1913
Mrs Wilfrid Ashley at the Venice Lido, ItalyMrs Wilfrid Ashley (?-1954), later Lady Mount Temple, nee Muriel (Molly) Spencer and formerly the Hon Mrs Forbes-Sempill. Seen here at the Venice Lido, Italy, seeking inspiration for her work
Medieval costume, 14th and 15th centuryMedieval costume, showing various people in aristocratic and middle-class clothing. From left to right: upper class woman and man in costume of 1380, man in costume of 1400, woman in costume of 1430
Ancient Egyptian costume. From left to right: woman and man in ordinary clothing, Numidian woman, baby and man, aristocratic Egyptian man, three native Egyptian men. BCE
Katharine Russell, Viscountess AmberleyKatharine (Kate) Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (nee Stanley, 1844-1874), British suffragist and early advocate of birth control
Aristocratic Dress C18ThFontange headdress, petticoats are lavishly & horizontally trimmed with lace & jewels, over-skirts anticipate the polonaise of the late C18th. N.B handscreen & face patches Date: 1700 - 1707
Buddha & DustmanSIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) He shows that he has relinquished aristocratic pretensions by befriending a low-caste refuse collector Date: 563? BC - 483? BC
Elizabethan HomeAn aristocratic family at home in Elizabethan times Date: circa 1590
Hotel Cavilla, Grand Square, Tangier, Morocco, with a letter of endorsement (dated 1909) from Don Jaime de Borbon, Duke of Madrid (1870-1931). circa 1910
The Country House Season 1915 by Charles Robinson, WW1House party at Castle Bareacres coming down to dinner during the munitions season. A pastiche on the traditional, upper class house party of the pre-war era
Munition workers guard of honour at Percy wedding, WW1Munition workers forming a guard of honour at the wedding of Miss Stella Drummond to Lord Eustace Percy (third son of the late Duke of Northumberland) at St. Margaret s, Westminster
Debutante queuing in the Mall by Rex WhistlerA shy debutante, accompanied by an imperious and matronly chaperone, sits in her chauffeur-driven car in the Mall, waiting to gain entrance to Buckingham Palace where she will be presented at court
Lord Charles CavendishBritish aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer Cavendish, second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire.. Pictured in The Illustrated and Sporting Dramatic News in 1931 beneath a picture of his future wife
Front cover of Tatler featuring wedding of Alec Cunningham RFront cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of the wedding of World War I flying ace, Captain Alec Cunningham-Reid (1895 - 1977) to Hon
Lady Anne WellesleyLady Anne Maud Rhys (n饠 Wellesley) (1910-1998), Wife of Hon. David Reginald Rhys; daughter of 5th Duke of Wellington. Pictured by society portraitist Olive Snell in The Sketch. 1929
A gardener feeds the rose bush with fresh manure Date: circa 1890s
Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox & Earl Alan Percy engagement 1911The enagement of Earl Alan Percy (1880 1930) to the youngest daughter of the Duke of Richmond, Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, later Countess Percy (1886 1965) in 1911. 1911
Victorian scrap - The Old EarlVictorian Scrap - The Old Earl. late 19th century
Victorian scrap - The Dowager Duchess. late 19th century
Victorian scrap - The DuchessVictorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - The Duchess. late 19th century
Victorian scrap - 20 Livings in his GiftVictorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - 20 Livings in His Gift. late 19th century
Victorian scrap - Lady Mable Maud Ethel Dorothy de Vere. late 19th century
Costume styles, 18th century, from left to right: middle class couple circa 1740, couple from Berlin in special evening dress circa 1780, French couple in Revolution-era costume
Lady Bridgett Poulett by Olive SnellLady Bridgett Poulett, ( only sister of Earl Poulett, described by The Sketch as a typical modern beauty, with fair hair, large eyes and is greatly in request at social gatherings. Date: 1932
Sketch cover - Lord & Lady Cavendish at Eden RocLord Charles Cavendish, 2nd son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire with his wife Lady Charles Cavendish, the former Adele Astaire, sister and dancing partner of Fred
Sketch cover featuring Lord Burghley in actionLord Burghley, captain of Britains Olympic team in 1932 jumping hurdles in a photograph on the front cover of The Sketch. David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905 - 1981)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British politicianJohn Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), British Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister. Date: circa 1810s
John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842-1876), British politician and writer. He was the eldest son of Lord John Russell, who served twice as British Prime Minister