Belles Collection (page 6)

Chateau de Creully, Calvados, Normandy, France. Date: circa 1905

Chateau d Equay, France - Rear View of the building Date: circa 1905

Chateau d Equay, France - Main Facade Date: circa 1905

Lady Beauchamp and the Lygon Sisters
Lady Beauchamp, formerly Lady Lettice Grosvenor, with her three eldest daughters, Lettice (born 1906), Sybil (born 1907) and Mary (the baby in her arms, born 1910)

Ulysses and the Sirens by Wilmot Lunt
Three bathing belles in brightly-hued swimsuits, sunbathe on a rock and catch the attention of a young man in a passing speedboat. Date: 1927

Belles of St Clement s! Girl bell ringers, 1926
A band of female change ringers at St Clement Danes church in the Strand, London. The Illustrated London News deemed the sight of female bell ringers sufficiently interesting

Beaulx abc belles heures. Book peddler. Belongs to the genre le Cris de Paris that illustrates street vendors of Paris. Until the invention of printing

The Sea Hath Pearls by Claude Shepperson
Bathing scene showing women in brightly coloured swimming costumes getting ready for a dip in the sea. Date: 1918

The Dolly Sisters in Oh Les Belles Filles, Paris, 1923
The Dolly Sisters in Oh Les Belles Filles, Palace Theatre, Paris, 1923 Date: 1923

The Belle-Buoy by Douglas Wales
Three 1920s bathing belles take a rest on a floating buoy out at sea. Date: 1929

Longing for Past Fashion
Poor little functionally garbed, war-weary girl of 1917 looks tearfully on as belles of other eras mock her with their pretty feminine elegance. Date: 1917

Bathing Belles
Two pretty bathing belles enjoying a frolic in the sea. Bathing machines can be seen in the background. Date: circa 1908

David Masson - 2
DAVID MASSON Scottish historian and biographer, professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres at the University of Edinburgh. Date: 1822 - 1907

David Masson - 1
DAVID MASSON Scottish historian and biographer, professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres at the University of Edinburgh. Date: 1822 - 1907

Joseph Montgolfier de l Academie des sciences, belles lettres, et artes de Lyon, inveniteur de la machine aerostatique ou ballon

Milka Suchard advertisement
Illustration of traditional French songs from one of twelve postcards: Que tas de belles filles Girofl?irofla!... 1903

Rays of Sunshine by Peter
A scene in a sunny corner la plage at La Baule when the season is at its height. The resort in south Brittany became increasingly popular during the 1920s. Date: 1927

Claude Gros De Boze
CLAUDE GROS de BOZE French antiquary, member of the Academie de Belles Lettres et Inscriptions, keeper of medals in the Royal Cabinet. Date: 1680 - 1753

Programme cover for Oh Les Belles Filles starring the Dolly Sisters at the Palace Theatre, Paris 1923. Artwork by Charles Gesmar. 1923

Wedding Belles
Group of bridesmaids walking behind the bride into church

Shampoo Sir?
Swimming. Illustration by Frederick Parker showing 1920s bathing belles splashing a bemused male swimmer

Crinoline Spoils Dancing
The men are forced out of the ballroom. There is barely enough room to accomodate the crinolined belles. A page in an attempt to serve tea tilts forward precariously

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