Britannia Collection (page 13)

Britannia and Eve, February 1933
A woman rests languidly on a cushion, book in the hand and looks rather seductively out at the viewer

Britannia and Eve, May 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous woman posing in a generously large sun hat

Britannia and Eve, January 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous woman in evening dress and gloves in a box at the theatre, her opera glasses and programme put to one side as she sits engrossed in a play

Britannia and Eve, June 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a sophisticated looking woman holding a cigarette in her elegant hands

Britannia and Eve, July 1938
Front cover illustration featuring a woman in a spring like yellow dress and matching hat picking violets

Britannia and Eve, February 1938
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous blonde woman pictured amid a ruffle of feathers

Britannia and Eve, November 1931
Front cover illustration featuring a lady in a beret and scarf driving a convertible car

Britannia and Eve, October 1939
Front cover illustration showing a jolly brunette woman admiring an autumnal branch. Date: October 1939

Britannia and Eve, July 1934
Front cover illustration featuring a woman with a smart bobbed hair style and large eyes, wearing a coat or shirt with a large collar

Britannia and Eve, March 1936
Front cover illustration featuring a blonde and beautiful young woman staring directly at the viewer

Britannia and Eve, November 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous couple, the woman swathed in a huge fur collar and her beau in top hat and tails

Britannia and Eve, November 1956
Elegant front cover illustration featuring a a woman in a sack coat and pillbox hat clutching two blooms to her chest

Britannia and Eve front cover, September 1954
An elegant woman in a navy and white skirt suit, offset by a white hat and gloves, poses elegantly on a table next to a vase of chrysanthemums or marigolds

Britannia and Eve front cover, February 1954
Front cover of Britannia and Eve featuring an elegant lady in a smart 1950s dress (with typical full skirt and nipped in waist) standing by a table where a game of cards is in progress

Robert Stephenson
Portrait of Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) was an English civil engineer, son of George Stephenson, who first built the locomotive. Robert built Britannia Bridge on Menai Straits

Britannia and Eve cover January 1939
Front cover illustration by Carl Shreve for Britannia and Eve depicting a young woman deciding what to write in her diary

Britannia and Eve cover April 1939
Front cover illustration by Carl Shreve for Britannia & Eve magazine, featuring a jolly looking woman in aviation gear

A Forecast of Spring Fashions by Gordon Conway
This charming afternoon gown is carried out in steel blue satin wtih circular bands and a full skirt lined with red. Specially designed and drawn for Britannia & Eve by Gordon Conway

Britannia & Eve front cover 1955
A colour illustration depicting a glamorous model posing against a large mural

Front cover from Britannia and Eve
A colour illustration from the front cover of the Britannia and Eve of a June bride

George V on Britannia
George V at the helm of the Royal yacht, Britannia in 1924

The Latest Lot at Christies
A metaphorical scene showing John Bull and Britannia taking bids for men from the public schools of England, to sacrifice themselves for Britain during World War One

The Steamship Britannia leaving Boston Harbour, USA, 1847
Engraving showing the steamship Britannia steaming through the ice to leave Boston Harbour, USA, 1847

Britannia Bridge - 1890
Britannia Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson

Britannia and Iran
Britannia and Persia make friends in the eighteenth century

Churchill Cartoon
Churchill, First Sea Lord, depicted as a circus impresario explaining to the audience that Britannia has been taken ill and will not be able to perform

Edward Vii / Yacht / 1896
The Britannia of Edward, prince of Wales, passes Ailsa and Satanita - no doubt at Cowes

Edward VII on board the Britannia
Edward VII (1841-1910) on board the Royal Yacht, Britannia at Cowes Regatta on the Isle of Wight in 1909 during a visit by the Russian Royal family

A Royal and Imperial Party at Cowes
Edward VII and Queen Alexandra with their guests, the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia being taken in a pinnace to the Royal Yacht, Britannia during a visit by the Russian Royal Family in 1909

BRITANNIA (1820)
Battleship of the Royal Navy, in 1859 converted to a training ship. (Note : there are many, many ships with this name !)

Menai Bridges / Hawkins
The Britannia Tubular Bridge (foreground) designed by Robert Stephenson and opened in 1850 and the Menai Suspension Bridge designed by Thomas Telford, opened in 1826

Britannia Crowned
Britannia crowned by Victory, trampling upon the chains of France, holding the trident of Neptune, whilst Fame proclaims the glory of her arms by pointing to military triumphs

Disraeli & Bulgaria 1876
NEUTRALITY UNDER DIFFICULTIES Disraeli : " Bulgarian Atrocities ! I can t find the Official Reports !!!"

Britannia with her Mines
Britannia surrounds her island with a cordon of mines

Ww1 Cartoon / U-Boat Block
Britannia high and dry - blockaded by the U-Boats

Nutters Dance / England
ENGLAND: EASTER CUSTOM NUTTERS DANCE. Britannia Bacup Coconut Dancers of Lancashire at the York Summer Festival. The dance is led by a whipper-in who whips the winter away!

Ceramics / Kiln 1902
A busy scene in the kiln yards at Britannia Pottery, Glasgow, Scotland

Cover of Britannia and Eve, February 1936
Front cover illustration for Britannia & Eve magazine showing a fashionable young woman smoking while talking on the telephone. Issue dated 1st February 1936

Front cover from the Britannia and Eve
Front cover from Britannia and Eve magazine showing a lady clad in a raincoat and umbrella, appropriate for the November issue

Leaving a Plane 1960S
Passengers alighting from a BEA Bristol Britannia aeroplane, watched by friends and relatives

Britannia Not Welcome
Britannia does not receive a warm welcome in Egypt

Victoria / Diamond / Punch
Mr Punch, Britannia, and various members of the British Empire honour the Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee

Britannia / Belgians / 1869
Britannia is urged to help the Belgians. Date: 1869

Introducing the Torpedo
Fiat Experimentum-! Britannia introduces the torpedo to the British navy

Britannia Music Hall
Famous music hall in Hoxton, London. Opened in 1858, built on the site of the Britannia Saloon, opened 1841. Converted to a cinema in 1923 and destroyed by bombing in 1940

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George V / Jubilee / Yacht
At the helm is the yachts owner, king George V, a keen sailor who in his early days commanded a torpedo boat

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