Courtesan Collection (page 2)

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Blind Mans Buff
Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Four Geisha Girls playing a game (similar to Blind Mans Buff?) Date: circa 1905

Japan - Geisha Girls kneels at her low writing table to finish a letter Date: circa 1904

The Courtesan Somenosuke of Matsuba-ya

Madame Mata-Hari dancing at the Musee Guimet
Mata Hari, a Malay name meaning eye of the day was the stage name of Margaretha Zelle, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan

Harriette Wilson
HARRIETTE WILSON Noted courtesan and autobiographer, depicted at home with miss Hawess and Will Halliday

PHRYNE, a Greek courtesan, is accused of profaning religious ceremonies, but her lawyer Hyperides wins an acquittal when she strips on the shore before the judges

Mieris - French Belle Epoque Stage Actress
Mademoiselle Mieris - Two portraits of the French Belle Epoque Stage Actress and Beauty, also described as Demi Mondaine, Cocotte and Courtesan ! Date: 1906

Mary Magdalene, c. 1530, by Jan van Scorel (1495-1562)
Jan van Scorel (1495-1562). Dutch painter. Mary Magdalene, c. 1530. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

The Archdukes hunting by Jan Brueghel the Elder
The Archdukes hunting (1611) by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Flemish painter. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Chinese Art. 7th century. Court Lady. Early Tang Dynasty
Chinese Art. 7th century. Court Lady. Ceramics. Early Tang Dynasty

Coronation in Reims of Charles Vi of France. Chronicle of Je
Charles VI (1368-1422), called the Beloved. King of France from 1380 to 1422, as a member of the House of Valois. Coronation in Reims. Chronicle of Jean Froissart. Conde Museum. Chantilly. France

Young man offering the manuscript to the Countess of Hauteville. 15th century miniature of Livre des cleres et nobles femmes. Chateau de Chantilly. France

Japan - Two Geisha Girls whispering to each other Date: 1906

Ann Elliott, Courtesan
ANN ELLIOTT courtesan, who sad to say died at age 26 : presumably thats her daughter. Date: 1743 - 1769

Teresia Const. Phillips
TERESIA CONSTANTIA PHILLIPS courtesan who commenced her career at age 12 with the future 4th earl Chesterfield, subsequently several times married, many times not... Date: 1709 - 1765

Coryate & Courtesan
THOMAS CORYATE traveller and author, meeting Margarita Emiliana, described as a bella cortesana of Venetia Date: 1577? - 1617

Mlle Celine Montaland in La Rose de Boheme
Mlle. Celine Montaland in La Rose de Boheme at the Palais Royal.. A child prodigy, she poses in two different costumes as a Spanish dancer with tambourine

La Bella Otero
BELLA OTERO, La (1868-1965). Spanish dancer, actress and courtesan

Music cover, The Piccolomini Waltz, from Verdis opera La Traviata, as performed at Almacks and the Court Balls. Marietta Piccolomini (1834-1899)

Nelly O brien
NELLY O BRIEN courtesan, mistress of the third viscount Bolingbroke and mother of his son. Date: ? - 1768

Annabella Maynard
ANNABELLA viscountess MAYNARD (nee Parsons) (previously mrs Horton) actress and courtesan, wife of Charles, viscount Maynard. Date: ? - 1808?

Japanese Geisha standing with her Traditional Shamisen Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha laughing Date: circa 1904

Three Japanese Geisha in Rickshaws Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha - Seated in an ornately-carved chair Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha Sisters in lavishly-patterned kimonos Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha Girls playing a game of flower cards Date: 1904

Two Japanese Geisha Girls walk hand in hand in the park Date: circa 1906

Ten Japanese Geisha Girls from Yokohama, Japan Date: circa 1907

Japanese Geisha admiring her reflection - entitled Vanity Date: circa 1906

Three Japanese Geisha girls in a Wisteria Garden. Date: circa 1917

Two Japanese Geisha girls playing crokinole
Two Japanese Geisha girl playing a game of crokinole (a cirular variant of shove ha penny). Date: circa 1917

A Japanese Geisha posing in a studio garden setting with fan and small cricket cage Date: 1910s

A Japanese Geisha at Sugita near Yokohama - pictured with three other women including a serving girl. Date: 1910s

Two Japanese Geisha in a garden with colourful blooms Date: 1910s

Japan - Five Geisha pose for the photographer in a garden Date: circa 1905

Japan - Four Geisha pose for the photographer around a bench Date: circa 1905

Japan - Three Geisha pose for the photographer by a house Date: circa 1905

Garden Scene, Japan - Geisha - Fishing on small stone bridge Date: circa 1905

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - One of the four girls is fidhing, whilst two others stand and hold umbrellas / parasols. Date: circa 1905

Japan - Japanese Geisha prepare themselves in the morning
Japan - Japanese Geisha (two of whom are topless) prepare themselves in the morning for the day ahead. Date: circa 1903

Japan - Studio Photographic Portrait of a Japanese Geisha Date: circa 1905

Japan - Three Japanese Geisha - Studio Photographic Portrait Date: circa 1905

Japan - Three Geisha Girls posing in a flowerbed Date: circa 1904

Japan - Five Geisha Girls greet a new arrival Date: circa 1904

Japan - Geisha girl holding a badminton racquet (about to hit a ball) Date: circa 1904

Japan - Three Geisha Girls playing traditional instruments - two on drums and one playing the Shamisen. Date: circa 1904

Japan - Geisha portrait Date: circa 1902

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