Admiring Collection (page 4)

Rasputin and Admirers
Grigori Rasputin (second on right) surrounded by admiring ladies of the Russian court. Date: 1871 - 1916

Advertisement for Cadburys chocolate -- male model (Jack Todd) posing in an antique shop. 1959

Advertisement for Cavendish boilers with female model (Pat Knight). 1959

London Life: The Guards at Whitehall - a familiar spectacle. Date: circa 1940

Comic postcard commenting on the length of womens skirts - " Its a funny thing, but womens skirts are looking so short that they make men look very long!" Date: 1918

An emancipated woman dreaming of the perfect husband
My Dream. An emancipated woman dreaming of a small, manageable, respectable husband! Date: circa 1920s

Officer of the British Guards admires a young lady
An Officer of the Foot Guards of the Household Division of the British Army admiring a striking young lady who is wearing a high feathered hat Date: circa 1910

Emancipated woman shows off her strength
The strong emancipated woman shows off her strength; she balances on a barbell with two red Valentines Day hearts for weights while picking up a puppet-like little man by the scruff of the neck

Two Cockney ladies admiring an artist
Two Cockney ladies admiring (?) an artist and is bloomin at ! Date: 1895

Comic Postcard - Romance at Piccadilly Circus " I meant t ge on the tube at Piccadilly last night, but I Got Off there instead!

Beauty and the Beast - Bathing Humour, featuring a hairy, rather ugly man surrounded in the surf by a bevvy of bathing beauties! Date: circa 1905

Male swimmer admiring a lady diver, who appears to have suffered a wardrobe malfunction (in the chest region) on her descent toward the waves

Three beauties admiring an arrangement of rikka flowers

Courtesans admiring a painting by Okumura Masanobu

Irishman in work clothes admiring well dressed Irishmans stickpin. Date c1899

Street music: accordion player, 1930s
A child playing a Puratone accordion in a sunny street, surrounded by admiring friends. 1930s

Wales / Vales of Ewias
A young woman admiring the beautiful Vale of Ewias, which runs into the Black Mountains, on the borders of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, Wales. Date: early 1960s

The Sarcophagus Room, Sir John Soanes Museum, 1864
Engraving showing the interior of the Sarcophagus Room of Sir John Soanes Museum in Lincolns Inn Fields, London, 1864. Several visitors in Victorian dress are shown admiring the ancient objects

Little Mice?

River Scene 1930S
A father and child messing about on a riverbank, admiring a passing riverboat. Date: 1930s

Irish Man on a Cart
A young Irish man wearing a cloth cap, riding home from work on his horse and cart and admiring the beautiful countryside. Date: 1930s

Wirksworth Well Dressing
Give Me to Drink - people admiring a Well Dressing at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. It originated in 1827 when a local gentleman had water brought from the moors. Date: 1950s

Young lady in a dress designed by Anna
Fashionable young lady wearing a dress in mauve silk, with fine pleating, a velvet belt and two velvet bows at the hip, with matching cloche hat, by Anna. 1924

Remarkable results from Edwards Harlene for hair, 1892
A lady admires her reflection in a hand mirror. Her luxuriant hair is thanks to Edwards Harlene for hair: " positively the best hair dressing for strengthening

Hair brushing with Edwards Harlene for hair, 1895
A lady brushes her luxuriant locks, admiring her reflection in her dressing table mirror.Edwards Harlene for hair Date: 1895

Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Academy
Queen Elizabeth II escorted round the Royal Academy by the President, Sir Charles Wheeler, during a private visit to the tercentenary exhibition of The Age of Charles II. Date: 1961

Frenchwoman with returning soldier

Marie Curie Nurses
A group of French nurses of the Marie Curie Hospital, Paris, France, admiring a framed picture of their patron and heroine, Marie Curie. Date: early 1930s

Norwegian Ski Jump 1862
A man performs a jump from a ledge, watched by some admiring fellow skiers. Date: 1862

A Line Study in Everyones Sketch Book by Howard Elcock
An artists fantasy - a shapely woman in a skimpy bathing costume decorated with a riotous pattern uses a pier as a catwalk as she is sketched by numerous identikit artists

Then - And Now by Leslie Marchant
Four cartoons comparing how a young Victorian woman would be watched while sea bathing (by several stout and stern chaperones) to the modern girl of 1925, who breezes to the beach on her motorcycle

Coldwell Rocks, Wye Valley, Gloucestershire
An Edwardian man stands admiring the Coldwell Rocks, near English Bicknor in the Wye Valley, Gloucestershire

Admiring jewellery in the sunshine
A woman examines her emerald jewellery in the sunlight, her partner looking on anxiously, hoping she will approve

Mary attracts the chaps
Now Mary was a plain girl, Of Lovers she had few; She donned the Harem skirt and now She doesn t know what to do!

They carried him off with three cheers and three times three
The star player of the cricket team is paraded past a crowd of admiring fans

What a jolly cricketer he would make
A school boy cricketer admires a suit of armour and imitates the poise and the position of the statues sword, with his cricket bat

An Artist at an Easel
A female artist paints at an easel on the seafront. A crowd of mainly children watch excitedly at this work in progress

The Concert
Two women and a gentleman, all dressed in their best evening attire, watch a performance intently with admiring glances from all three

Faraglioni Rocks near Mareggiata, Capri, Italy
Faraglioni is the collective name for three stacks located off the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples. The stacks have been given their own names: Stella (still attached to the main island)

Admiring a baby
Two elderly men admire a small infant, who seems very content with all the attention

Painted Ladies
Woman admiring herself in her compact mirror with a butterfly by her side

Colour illustration by Baird
A colour illustration showing a glamorous lady admiring her new dress

In Spring a Young Mans fancy
A colour illustration showing a gentleman admiring a stylishly dressed young lady

Queen Victorias Christmas tree
Engraving of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with their children at Windsor Castle. The royal family can be see admiring their Christmas tree

Love at the piano / postcard
A woman in a fabulous pink dress happily accepts the admiring advances of a man as she sits at her piano

Doncaster Inn
Admiring a horse outside the Salutation Inn, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

The Butterfly, by Bevan Petman
An attractive young lady admiring a butterfly tattoo on her shoulder

Warm Weather Studies, by A. K. MacDonald
A colour illustration showing a model admiring a painting of herself

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