Bonnet Collection (page 6)

Woman in morning outfit of skirt, blouse and bonnet
Woman in morning outfit of striped skirt, laced blouse and bonnet opening the curtains. Deshabille de matin. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

The difficult choice
Fashionable woman choosing a new outfit in a salon. The difficult choice. Le choix difficile. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman skipping in white nainsook ruffled dress. Robe de nansouk. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain from Tommaso Antonginis Journal des Dames

Woman with shotgun in hunting outfit of green and tartan serge. Costume de chasse serge verte et ecossaise. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Girl in a turquoise bonnet
Pretty young girl in a white dress trimmed turquoise and matching bonnet. A sprig of daisies in the foreground. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: circa 1908

Girl in a yellow bonnet
Pretty young girl in a pale yellow dress and matching bonnet. A sprig of forget-me-nots in the foreground. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: circa 1908

Viscountess Fitzharris, Northumberland
Viscountess Fitzharris on the battlements of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. 1839

Cartoon, Mrs Gamp Taking the Little Party... Back to School
Cartoon, Mrs Gamp Taking the Little Party She Looks After Back to School. A satirical comment on the Morning Herald newspaper (represented here as the Dickens character Mrs Gamp)

Music cover, I m Sister to the Cure, Valse Comique by H T Swatton, sung by E Marshall, dedicated to C Morton, drawn by Alfred Concanen

Miss Fielding, Victorian actress, in a fancy bonnet. late 19th century

The Butterfly Series - Please Come In! early 20th century

Early Victorian womens fashions
A range of early Victorian womens fashions. 1897

Toque or Bonnet Monkey (Cercopithecus radiatus)
Toque or Bonnet Monkey (Cercopithecus radiatus, Toque macaque, Macaca sinica). Date: 1842

Peasants of Darlana or Dalecarlia county, Sweden. Illustration from Andrew Swintons Travels into Norway, Denmark and Russia, 1792

Children flying a kite and playing with a hoop, 18th century
Children flying a kite, rolling hoops, and playing at shepherd and shepherdess, 18th century. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Norman crowns, hats and helmets
Norman crowns 188-197, Norman womans bonnet 198, Norman hats 199-201, helmet with nose protector 202, Norman flat helm 203, and Norman cylindrical helm 204

Two ladies on a sofa in a parlour. She says, You know theres no hurry. She thinks, She won t move! Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Swiss artist Jean Gabriel

Woman meeting a portly dandy in a parlour with large mirror and sofa. Charmed to meet you! (What an oaf!) Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Jean Gabriel Scheffer

Woman seated on a sofa flattering an ugly man. One is never ugly with a distinguished figure. Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Jean Gabriel Scheffer

Lilac bonnet and violet chanterelle
Lilac bonnet, Mycena pura, and pigs ears or violet chanterelle, Gomphus clavatus, (Craterellus clavatus). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Two pretty maids helping to dress two old crones
La toilette: Two young women help older women with baby bonnets and false bosoms - while giving knowing looks to the viewer. Women of 19 and 20 are in open war with women of a certain age (30)

Visitors in Pelisses
Guests at a fashionable salon, all wearing extravagent fur-lined clothes, jackets, dresses and pelisses. By the early 19th century, fur lined and trimmed cloaks, coats and jackets were all the rage

Scene from La Marchande des Modes
Scene from Etienne Jouys 1808 play La Marchande des Modes, a parody of La Vestale (his own opera from 1807 with music by Spontini)

Shop girls dressing in the morning. Four shop girls dressing, fixing their hair in front of mirror, adjusting their stockings, playing with a cat. These little workers show such ingenious coquetry

Millinery shop workers. Women in lowcut muslin dresses trying on hats, holding a hat box, fixing feathers to a headdress and reading a notebook at the counter

Fabric shop workers. Women in muslin dresses, bonnets and shawls embroidering, sewing, cutting cloth and wrapping bolts of fabric

The problem with Capote bonnets: two womens deep-brimmed bonnets collide as they greet each other, while fashionable men watch

The bored women of Longchamp racetrack. Three fashionable bored women sit among a mountain of chairs as a maid clears them away

Miss Pastel and her mother
Miss Pastel followed by her mother. A young beauty art student carries brushes, palette and canvas, while her mother in bonnet, shawl and gloves carries a heavy easel and stool

Three Parisian graces, circa 1800. Three unattractive maids wear the latest Paris fashions. Its certainly true that in fashion a servile herd of imitators abounds

Merveilleuses playing the four corners game of tag
The four corners game of tag. Five merveilleuses in muslin dresses play the game of four corners, a version of tag. Illustration by Dominique Bosio

Girls skipping in a park, early 19th century
Girls playing the skipping game of Walking under the Arch, boy playing hoop, while another girl watches. Scene in a Paris park

Woman on a chaise longue looking at a new hat
Woman on a chaise longue in fringed shawl admiring a new hat held by her milliner, while a maid holds a bottle of perfume. The best remedy, or the Longchamp hat

French and English women in similar fashions
Mutual borrowing of fashions between French and English women, early 19th century. Both wear identical style bonnets, frilled dresses, shawls and spencer jackets

The creole game or flying ring game, early 19thc century
Fashionable people playing the flying ring game or the creole game. When the Parisians adopted the game, it had to be embellished: so the ring was covered with ribbon, then rosettes, then bells

Three girls in mid-calf length dresses and pantalons dancing with a shawl. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Woman in a shop choosing a new dress, early 19th century
Woman in a shop trying to decide which dress matches her new hat. A shopgirl holds a dress trimmed with flowers, and another with gauze frill

Fashionable woman feeding her pet spaniel
A fashionable woman at the dinner table feeds her pampered spaniel Azor with a chicken wing, the chambermaid eats a herring from a plate on her knees

The roller coaster at Belleville, 1812
The roller coaster at Belleville with its five cars riding a distance of 600 feet in 9 or 10 seconds. A fashionable woman in plumed bonnet, shawl and parasol watches from the terrace

Masquerade party on the rollercoaster at the Salle de l Odeon, 1815. Fashionable society at a masked ball in the pleasure gardens, and women wearing the Swiss Bernese style

Munito the wonder dog performing card tricks, 1815
Munito the wonder dog performing card tricks for a fashionable audience, 1815. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Ladies and gentlemen share coffee and rolls
Le Dejeuner. Gentlemen in coat tails and breeches and ladies in veils and dresses share a breakfast of coffee and bread. Great familiarity reigns in the morning, one has no time to become ceremonial

Roller coaster at the Barriere du Roule, Paris
Roller coaster at the Barriere du Roule (Place de Ternes, Paris). Fashionable women in bonnets and shawls riding cars down the rollercoaster

Street entertainer balancing on his head on a table. Accompanied by a fiddler and a young boy dancing a jig. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Street performer drumming with a violinist
Drummer performing tricks with drumsticks while beating a drum, accompanied by a violinist. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

An organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses

A Parisian woman dressing. A merchant displays an elegantly frilled dress, while shopgirls fix her bonnet and bring fabric

Caricature of French and English costumes, circa 1815. The small size of English ladies hats, the excessive length of their bodices and mean cut of their dresses contrast with our Parisian fashions

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