Aristocracy Collection (page 8)

Marie Antoinettes sleigh, a carriage mounted on skis. Marie Antoinette raced Madame de Lamballe around Versailles. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times

Woman in a sea-green redingote with two collars, 1787
Woman in a sea-green redingote with two collars, gauze fichu, felt hat in canary decorated with ribbons, her hair tied with a hairpin a la Cagliostro. She holds a long cane or badine

Silver salt cellar showing the arcades of the Palais Royal, designed by Grancher, jeweller at Petit-Dunkerque. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times

Woman in satin robe a la turque in violet and green stripes, canary corset, white petticoat and fichu, and a bonnet a la turque decorated with heron plumes

Woman in black and poppy-red outfit, 1787
Woman in large black felt hat with a poppy-red ribbon, caraco jacket, violet corset, and black and poppy petticoats, white fichu and falbala, 1787

Woman in traveling clothes for riding a cabriolet, 1787
Woman in traveling clothes for riding a cabriolet: she wears a jacket with three collars in Peking puce, a gilet and petticoat in Peking apple-green, and a felt hat decorated with feathers

Bonnet a l Iphigenie and chapeau a la Colette
Bonnet a l Iphigenie, a pouf in white gauze with flowers inspired by the 1779 opera by Gluck, and chapeau a la Colette, straw hat decorated with ribbons

Bonnets a la Randan and a la Bayard
Bonnet a la Randan, green taffeta band with gold insignia and white feathers and gauze, and bonnet a la Bayard, a pouf a la chinoise with gauze and feathers. Both inspired by the actress Mlle

Elizabethan aristocratic couple getting into a coach. Date: 16th century

Elizabethan aristocratic man going hunting on horseback. Date: 16th century

Two Elizabethan aristocratic men and an elegant lady. Date: 16th century

Elizabethan courtier and two elegant ladies. Date: 16th century

Fancy Dress Ball at Princes Skating Club, London
Fancy Dress Ball at Princes Skating Club, Knightsbridge, London. Present, from left to right, are: Violet Cuninghame (Folly), Myra Hamilton (Pierrette, 3rd prize), May Lyle (Geisha)

Lady Terence Blackwood (nee Miss Davis)
Florence (nÚÑáDavis), Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (later Countess Howe) when Lady Terence Blackwood, daughter of John H. Davis of New York. Date: 1895

Silhouette, Duchess of Angouleme (1778-1851), daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Costume for the Eclipse Ball, Begum Aga Khan
A costume for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Lady Irene Cubitt, sportswoman (keen hunter and racegoer), wife of Hon Archibald Cubitt. Date: 1930

Four costumes for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Mrs Sydney van den Bergh in fancy dress for New Year
Mrs Sydney van den Bergh in fancy dress -- A Candelabrum to Light in 1931. To be worn by her at the Chelsea Arts Club Ball on New Years Eve at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Date: 1930

Viscountess Weymouth listening to music -- A Camerhapsody to Classic Jazz (Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue) -- part of an exhibition at 28 Old Burlington Street, London. Date: 1930

Personalities on the beach -- Hon Mrs Richard Norton, the wife of Lord Grantleys heir. Date: 1930

Personalities beside the pool and on the beach -- Lady Cynthia Mosley by the bathing pool, Cap d Antibes (top) and Cocktail Time

Sketch cover - five views of Chatelaine of Naworth, Yevonde
Front cover of The Sketch featuring an unusual portrait of the Countess of Carlisle, formerly the Hon. Bridget Hore-Ruthven

Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper by Madame Yevonde
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936), later Lady Alington, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury. Pictured in part colour by Madame Yevonde in August 1923

Noble German couple in costume. Date: circa 1650

Lady Diana Cooper at Venice Lido with inflatable fish
Lady Diana Cooper, formerly Lady Diana Manners, pictured in a pyjama suit paddling at the Venice Lido carrying a large inflatable fish! Date: 1926

Marchese di San Faustino at the Venice Lido
Jane di San Faustino, one of the leaders of Venice society pictured at the Lido with her Sealyham Terrier. Although she was American

Bystander cover - The Marchioness of Carisbrooke
The Marchioness of Carisbrooke (1890-1956), formerly Lady Irene Denison wife of Prince Alexander of Battenberg later Mountbatten, Marquis of Carisbrooke who was a cousin of King George V. Date: 1929

Sketch cover - Lady Burghley by Madame Yevonde
Mary Theresa (nÚÑáMontagu-Douglas-Scott), Lady Burghley (1904-1984), First wife of 16th Baron of Burghley (later 6th Marquess of Exeter)

A Coster Group at the Westminster Hospital Ball
A group in costermongers costumes at the Westminster Hospital Ball at the Dorchester Hotel in June 1931. From left, Simon Elwes, Mr Francis Toye

Lady Mary Lygon and Viscountess Castlerosse at the Westminster Hospital Ball and Cotillon at the Dorchester Hotel in June 1931. Date: 1939

Countess Beatty, Duchess of Sutherland & Lady Ednam, Lido
High society enjoying the pleasures of life at the Venice Lido while being dressed entirely appropriately in beach pyjamas. From left, Countess Beatty, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Ednam

The Dukes Daughter-in-Law Who Was a Star - Lady Charles Cavendish (wife of the Duke of Devonshires second son), better known as Adele Astaire, dancer and sister of Fred Astaire. Date: 1933

Two countesses and an Earl on the Riviera, France - Countess of Brecknock, Countess of Warwick (the recently married former Rose Bingham), Hon Kay Norton and Earl of Warwick. Date: 1933

Hon Nancy Freeman-Mitford, novelist daughter of Lord Redesdale, at the time of her engagement to Hon Peter Rennell Rodd, second son of Lord Rennell. Date: 1933

Front cover, Hon Phyllis Astor on her engagement to Lord Willoughby de Eresby, seen here at Cliveden. Date: 12 July 1933

Madame Yevonde portraits of various young women - sisters, twins and cousins, three storeys of beauty. Mollie and Maimie Paget (twin sisters) with their cousin Anne Paget between them (top), Myrtle

Lady Castlerosse at Deauville
Doris Delavigne, Lady Castlerosse, pictured at the fashionable French resort of Deauville wearing sunglasses and her signature playsuit, this one in pale blue crepe de chine. Date: 1936

Sketch - Engagement of Margaret Whigham & Earl of Warwick
Front cover of The Sketch magazine reporting on the engagement of popular debutante, Margaret Whigham ( the most talked-of, photographed, and paragraphed debutante ) to the Earl of Warwick

Front cover of Manners and Rules of Good Society, or Solecisms to be Avoided, By a Member of the Aristocracy, published by Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1887 Date: 1887

Edith Helen Chaplin, Viscountess Castlereagh (1878-1959), wife of the 7th Marquess. 19th century

Grace Cecile Lowther, Countess of Lonsdale
Grace Cecile Lowther (nÚÑáGordon), Countess of Lonsdale (1854-1941), wife of the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. 19th century

Marchioness of Londonderry, English political hostess
Theresa (Susey Helen), Marchioness of Londonderry (nee Chetwynd-Talbot, 1856-1919). 1896

Corisande Armandine Leonie Sophie, Countess of Tankerville
The Right Honourable Corisande Armandine Leonie Sophie de Gramont, Countess of Tankerville (1782-1865). She married Charles Augustus, 5th Earl of Tankerville, in 1806. early 1800s

Nieces of Duchess of York selling RNLI flags
Jean and Elizabeth Elphinstone, nieces of the Duchess of York, selling Royal National Lifeboat Institute flags. 1935

Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861-1938), campaigning socialist and mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). She inspired the music hall song, Daisy, Daisy

Princess of Pless & Duchess of Westminster in Egypt
Princess Daisy of Pless and her sister, the Duchess of Westminster riding camels in front of the Sphinx during a trip to Egypt in 1912. Date: 1912

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