Beautiful Collection (page 7)

Beautiful photographic portrait of a young girl
Beautiful photographic full-length portrait of a young girl, aged about 10. The inscription on the reverse suggest her name was Honor Bailey. Date: circa 1930s

Warblington Church, Old Oak Porch
Warblington Church of St. Thomas (late 12th century), Hampshire - The (beautiful) Old 14th century Oak North Porch. Date: circa 1910s

The Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus - Devotional Card
The Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus - Beautiful late 19th century Devotional Card circa 1890s

Bisharin Girl - Egypt
Beautiful portrait photograph of a Bisharin Girl with braided hair, beads and long tunic - Egypt Date: circa 1910s

Alima - a very beautiful woman from Somalia, wearing a wrap-around dress of patterned fabric, headscarf and bead necklace. Date: circa late 1920s

Lucky Dip / The Bran Tub
Three girls in beautiful white lace dresses and hats try their luck in the bran tub. They peek over the edge to try and win a good prize... Date: 1894

London Life cover featuring Sophia Loren, 1965
Sophia Loren (born 1934) Italian actress, pictured on the front cover of London Life magazine in November 1965 with her husband, Carlo Ponti

Red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra, and king bird-of-paradise, Cicinnurus regius.. Chromolithograph by unknown artist/engraver from Mary and Elizabeth Kirbys Beautiful Birds in Far-Off Lands, T

Countess Hoey Stoker
The Countess Hoey Stoker, daughter of Count Oei Tiong Han, Chinese businessman. Date: 1918

David Wright pin-up from Men Only, August 1952
Pin-up of a red haired woman in a large frilled sun hat and spotted bikini. Date: 1952

Beautiful Legs Contest
A group of young women competing in a contest to decide which of them has the most beautiful legs, the prize being a pair of silk stockings! Date: early 1930s

Senegal - Griot playing a Xalam
A Griot Xalam Player - Senegal. The most common stringed instrument in Senegal. Griots of many ethnic groups play it, including the Wolof, Sereer, Mandinko, Malinke, Fulbe, and Tukuloor

Lady wearing a large hat with Ostrich Feathers
Beautiful Lady wearing an extraordinary large hat with Ostrich Feathers (dyed mauve). Date: circa 1910s

Thatcheria mirabilis, Japanese wonder shell
This spectacularly spiralling shellfish is a member of the Turrid family who catch their prey by harpooning them with a modified radula (tooth) and poisoning them with a nerve toxin

PERI
A winged creature from Persian mythology, once considered malevolent but later perceived as good, beautiful creatures angelic in behaviour as well as in appearance Date: circa 1860

The Duchess of Gloucester on her wedding day
The beautiful wedding gown worn by Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott. Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester in the wedding dress she wore for her marriage to Prince Henry

Stari Most - Mostar Bridge - Mostar, Bosnia
Stari Most (English translation: The Old Bridge ) - a 16th century bridge in the city of Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina, that crosses the River Neretva and connects two parts of the city

The Duchess of Gloucester on her wedding day
The beautiful wedding gown worn by Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott. Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester shown in her wedding dress worn for her marriage to Prince Henry

Gulliver in Brobdingnag
Much to his distress, Gulliver is admired by the ladies of the country

Gibson Girl Painting
Young female artist at work The Beautiful Young Woman...had stepped back from her easel

One of a set of cards showing the Allies as butterflies
Beautiful hand painted card showing Serbia, one of the Aux Allies Human Butterfly series. WW1 Date: circa 1916

Maud Jeffries and Wilson Barrett in The Sign of the Cross
Maud Jeffries (1869-1946) as " Mercia" and Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) as " Marcus" in " The Sign of the Cross" an 1895 four-act historical tragedy

Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866, by Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). French painter. Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Vietnam - Hai Phong - Woman with a fabulous wide-brimmed hat
Vietnam - Hai Phong - Pretty woman wearing a fabulous wide-brimmed hat with tassels and a handy holding strap! Date: 1908

Office of the Suez Canal Company in Ismailia, Egypt
Garden of the office of the Suez Canal Company in Ismailia, a city in north-eastern Egypt. The Suez Canal Company was created by Ferdinand de Lesseps

WW2 - American soldier looks up the word kiss in French, which his romantic interest is thinking is not really necessary!! Date: circa 1943

Zelica, a character in Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore
Zelica - But there was one, among the chosen Maids, Who d blush d behind the gallerys silken shades - a character in The Veiled Prophet, Lalla Rookh, a long narrative poem by Thomas Moore

Queen Sirikit visiting London
An official two-day state visit to the UK by King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) (1927-) and Queen Sirikit (1932-) of Thailand - the stylish Queen wowing the London crowds. Date: 1960

The Lady With the Fan by Abel Faivre
Inside front page of The Graphic - Christmas Number 1912 - The Lady With the Fan by Abel Faivre (18671945). A grand lady wearing an elaborate hat (with thick long silk ribbon and ostrich feathers)

Miss Lily Elsie in The Merrie Widow
Miss Lily Elsie (1886-1962), English Actress and Singer - seen here in The Merrie Widow, the play by Victor Leon and Leo Stein with music by Franz Lehar

Cleo de Merode - French Actress and Dancer
Cleo de Merode (Cleopatra Diane of Merode) (1873-1966) - French actress and dancer who became the mistress of Leopold II, King of the Belgians. Date: circa 1905

Banky and Valentino in The Son of the Sheik
Vilma Banky (1901-1991) and Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) in the Silent Film, The Son of The Sheik, 1926. Date: 1926

Fantastic Adventures - Daughter of the Snake God
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1942, featuring the story Daughter of the Snake God by William P. McGivern and John York Cabot

A Windmill on a Polder Waterway, Known as In the Month of Ju
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel (1828-1903). Dutch painter. A Windmill on a Polder Waterway, Known as In the Month of July, c. 1889. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Spain. Andalusia. Medina-Azahara. Ruins of House of the army
Spain.Andalusia. Medina-Azahara. Fortified arab muslim medieval palace-city, built by Abd-ar-Rahman III al -Nasir (912-961). Ummayad Caliph of Cordoba. Ruins. Dar-al-Yund or House of the army

A Circassian woman, literary history suggests that Circassian women were thought to be unusually beautiful and elegant Date: 1913

On the Tirreno by Matania
A girl in a red swimming costume surveys the azure blue sea on the Tirreno on the Italian coast. Date: 1924

Catherine Cockburn
CATHERINE COCKBURN, nee Trotter : precocious writer whose first play was staged when she was 16 ! Friend of Congreve and Locke : thought beautiful when young. Date: 1679 - 1749

Edna May (1878-1948) - American actress and singer. As seen here, May was a popular postcard beauty; she was famous for her leading roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Date: 1905

Saint Benedict of Norcia
SAINT BENEDICT of Norcia, hermit, depicted being tempted by a demon disguised as a beautiful woman : you will be glad to learn that Benedict successfully resisted Date: 480? - 547

Mrs William Tudor Wilkinson aka Dolores by Olive Snell
Dolores, born Kathleen Rose, portrayed by Olive Snell in The Tatler. She was star of the Ziegfeld Follies and a leading mannequin working for designers including Lucile

Front cover of The Tatler - The Duchess of Sutherland
Front cover portrait of Her Grace The Duchess of Sutherland, 27th October 1909. Described as one of the most beautiful members of the aristocracy

Tatler front cover of Lady de Bathe (Lillie Langtry)
Tatler front cover showing Lady de Bathe, Lillie Langtry, by name of Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe, n饠 Le Breton, also called (187497) Emilie Charlotte Langtry (born Oct)

Lady Lavery
Hazel, Lady Lavery (1886 - 1935), formerly Hazel Martyn and Mrs Hazel M. Trudeau of New York and second wife of the celebrated portrait Sir John Lavery who painted her portrait hundreds of times

Villa Carlotta, Lake Como, Italy
The beautiful Botanic Gardens at the Villa Carlotta, Lake Como, Italy. Built at the end of 17th century by the Milanese Marquis Giorgio Clerici. Date: 1918

The Harvest Moon by Sir E. A. Waterlow
Beautiful landscape by Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow (1850-1919), showing a flock of sheep being led past rustic farm buildings. Date: 1914

Henrietta Tiarks modelling California Cottons dress, 1960
Henrietta Joan Tiarks (born 1940), racehorse owner and breeder, renowned society beauty and deb of the year in 1957, featured modelling for a California Cottons advertisement

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