Breasted Collection (page 7)

Sri Lanka - Noss Village maids with Palm Leaf Umbrella. Date: circa 1910s

Fine portrait of a Zulu Woman, South Africa - Intombe River region. Date: circa 1901

Smiling Zulu Woman and child, South Africa Date: circa 1901

Sakai Women, Kampong Ulu Jelebu, Malaysia Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - Women carrying mealie-meal - a relatively coarse flour made from maize (called mielies or mealies). A staple food in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi

South African couple - postcard entitled Sweethearts Date: 1906

Oriental beauty reclining on a divan
Oriental beauty (yet to open her wardrobe that morning) reclining on a divan. Date: 1914

Tripoli, Libya - Italo-Turkish War damage and exotic dancer
Tripoli, Libya - Evidence of Bombardment during the Italo-Turkish War and an exotic dancer. The Italo-Turkish War was launched by Italy against Turkey, with the aim of gaining Libya

Exotic Turkish Dancer in Egypt Date: circa 1908

Oriental Egyptain Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt
Oriental Egyptian Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt, a very popular motif of the period in fashion and jewellery. The terminology was Plique-a-jour (French for " letting in daylight" )

Algerian Moorish beauty " Antinea la Charmeuse", dressed in headscarf, earrings and not a lot else... Date: circa 1910s

Symbol of Ireland - Harp. The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542. Date: 1903

Sitta pusila, brown-headed nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, whi
Plate 22, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Ramphastos dicolorus, red-breasted toucan

Amaurornis phoenicurus, white-breasted waterhen
Plate 92, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Dendrocopos macei analis, fulvous-breasted woodpecker
Plate 23, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Ficedula parva, red-breasted flycatcher
Plate 20 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, scaly-breasted lorikeet

Tanysiptera sylvia, buff-breasted paradise kingfisher
Plate 50 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 4 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Dendroica castanea, bay-breasted warbler
Plate 69 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Pitta maxima, ivory-breasted pitta
Plate 27 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 4 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

A collection of 20 birds eggs
A collection of birds eggs showing different sizes and variations. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Sitta carolinensis, white-breasted nuthatch
Plate 152 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Prinia hodgsonii, grey-breasted prinia
Plate 43, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Icteria virens, yellow-breasted Chat
Plate 50, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Dicauem erthyrothorax, Leptochoma sperata, Cinnyris sp
Plate 30 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia

Lonchura punctulata, scaly-breasted munia
Plate 32, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Tryngites subruficollis, buff-breasted sandpiper
Plate 265 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Mergus serrator, red-breasted merganser
Plate 401 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Ducula pacifica, Macropygia mackinlayi, Columba vitiensis
Watercolour by Thomas Theodore Barnard (1922)

Advert for Burberry overcoats 1940
Reliability and economy. If there is a time when it is necessary to look for long wear in suits, overcoats or waterproofs it is now

Hs Foster by Spy 1907
H.S Foster wears a frock coat, double-breasted waistcoat, floral buttonhole, grey striped trousers with a front & back crease, high all round collar & a spotted cravat. Date: 1907

Evening dress men 1951 - 52
Two Frenchmen in formal evening dress of a double- breasted dinner jacket with silk lapels & black tie or the more elegant tail coat with a white tie & waistcoat. Date: 1951

Mens eveing dress 1967
Frenchmans evening wear: black tuxedo, white double- breasted dinner jacket with long lapels & black tie or the more formally elegant tail coat, white tie & wing collar. Date: 1967

Red-breasted Merganser
A fine Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) - a diving duck. Illustration on a Russian postcard Date: circa 1910s

Double-breated coat
Woman wearing a hat at a jaunty angle, double-breasted tweed coat with wrist gloves. 1951

Newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers in uniform
A line of newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers are fitted with their uniforms and helmets at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

The Toilet of Helen by Aubrey Beardsley, an illustration to his novel Under the Hill. A bare-breasted Helen is preened and pampered by decorative ladies in 18th century dress

Two Metropolitan Police officers in the street
Two Metropolitan Police officers pose for their photograph in a street, with a rough stone wall behind them. They are wearing double-breasted overcoats. Date: late 19th century

Messalina by Aubrey Beardsley
Messalina and her companion by Aubrey Beardsley, an illustration to an edition of the Roman satirist Juvenals Sixth Satire. Messalina was the wife of the Roman emperor Claudius. Date: 1895

Greek Artistic Beauty, elegantly draped in thin pink chiffon and holding a variety of metal amphorae. She seems to have forgotten some of her clothing however.... Date: circa 1910s

Djibouti, East Africa - Hairdressers
Djibouti, East Africa - Traditional methods of hairdressing. Date: circa 1910s

Two outfits by Philippe et Gaston and Jean Patou
Two fashionable ladies wearing the latest outfits. On the left, a plain off the shoulder blue dress with white collar, by Philippe et Gaston

Three women in outfits by Doeuillet
Three women wearing outfits by Doeuillet. On the left, a grey sleeveless tubular dress with scattered gold design, and red trim around neckline, hem and hips

Two ladies in outfits by Premet
Two fashionable ladies wearing outfits by Premet. On the left, a three-piece beige suit, single-breasted jacket with black block squares and belt

Three children in outfits by English Warehouse
Three children holding hands, wearing outfits by English Warehouse. 1924

Two ladies in outfits by Philippe et Gaston and Drecoll
Two fashionable ladies wearing fashionable summer outfits, probably for a day at the races. On the left, a white cap-sleeve crepe dress with black floral pattern and yellow border trim

Djibouti, Two women water carriers
A very odd photographic postcard from Djibouti, East Africa, featuring two women of starkly differing physical stature. On the left is a small woman smoking a large cigarette

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