Aristocratic Collection (page 3)

ARISTOCRATIC SWINGING
A beautiful young woman is pushed on a swing by a dashing chap. Date: 18th century

18TH CENTURY GARDENPARTY
A garden party on an aristocratic estate - dancing on the lawn for some, gossip and flirtation for others Date: circa 1740

GREECE / ARISTOCRATIC LADY
Aristocratic ladies and a Priestess. Date: circa 500 BC

SOCIAL / GERMANY / ARISTOS
Aristocratic scene showing a feast and other activities Date: 14th century

ARISTOCRATIC HOUSEHOLD
An aristocratic household gather for their devotions in the chapel at Moat House, Ightham, Kent

Hunting party picnic
An aristocratic hunting party breaks for lunch: a picnic on the grass. Date: mid 18th century

Cartoon, Dilettanti Theatricals
Contemporary 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 status
A 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 ancestry
A 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 dress
A hand-tinted postcard photograph of a British Beauty in a very fine dress. Date: circa 1910s

Duchess of Marlborough
Portrait 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 Astor
Violet 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-Scott
David 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 Lister
The 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 cartoon
Lady 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 1913
Upper class women wearing the latest winter garments. 1913

Mrs Wilfrid Ashley at the Venice Lido, Italy
Mrs 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 century
Medieval 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 Amberley
Katharine (Kate) Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (nee Stanley, 1844-1874), British suffragist and early advocate of birth control

Aristocratic Dress C18Th
Fontange 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 & Dustman
SIDDHARTHA 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 Home
An 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, WW1
House 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, WW1
Munition 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 Whistler
A 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 Cavendish
British 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 R
Front 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 Wellesley
Lady 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 1911
The 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 Earl
Victorian Scrap - The Old Earl. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - The Dowager Duchess. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - The Duchess
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - The Duchess. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - 20 Livings in his Gift
Victorian 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 Snell
Lady 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 Roc
Lord 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 action
Lord 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 politician
John 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

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