Cowl Collection

Carthusian monks process to matins at 2 am
Carthusian monks in cowls and habits process to matins at 2 am

Girl & Beach Ball 1950S
Windswept young lady, wearing shorts & a stripey dolman (batwing) sleeved top with cowl collar leans against a large beach ball to have her photograph taken

Cluniac Monk
Cluniac monk of Melton Mowbray, England, with his cowl

English Cluniac Monk
A CLUNIAC MONK of Melton Mowbray, England, depicted without his cowl

Client: Ideal Home - Roden Norman
Client: Ideal Home - Shoot to promote the selling of advertising space - the Advertisement Manager was Roden Norman (pictured). Date: circa late 1960s

Death seizes the Mendicant Friar as he enters a convent with his money-box and wallet.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Tis not the Cowl that Makes the Monk. Artists interpretation of a traditional proverb. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916

Gertrude Anne of Hohenberg, queen of King Rudolf
Gertrude Anne of Hohenberg, 1225-1281, queen of King Rudolf I of Germany, and her son Charles, d.1276. Kaiserin Anna Gertraud, Karl. From her tomb in Basel Minster

Friars cowl or larus, Arisarum vulgare. Arum arisarum Linn. Sp. plant 1370. Arisarum a larges feuilles. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz

Mandrake, female, Mandragora officinarum, Atropa mandragora, Mandragore femelle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier Artificial

Friars cowl, Arisarum vulgare. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

TUNIC DRESS 1934
Platinum blonde wears a halter neck long line tunic in pale blue satin with scarf-like drapery attached at the shoulder. Worn over a black velvet skirt. Date: 1934

Girl with Beach Ball
Playful blonde model poses with an enormous beach ball on golden sands wearing a red & white striped cowl neck top & tiny red shorts

Pigeons - Blue, White and Black Jacobins, Fancy Breed
A portrait of a Blue, White and Black Jacobin, a breed of fancy pigeon. The Jacobin developed over many years of selective breeding and originates from Asia

Pigeons - Red and Yellow Jacobins, Fancy Breed
A portrait of a Red and Yellow Jacobin, a breed of fancy pigeon. The Jacobin developed over many years of selective breeding and originated in Asia

Petrus De Backere
PETRUS DE BACKERE Dutch Dominican poet and theologian, depicted wearing his monastic cowl. Date: 1517 - 1601

Evening Frocks 1932
Dinner and Evening frocks: features to note include lace sleeves; bow detail and low back; cartridge pleating; cowl bodice and a taffeta coatee with unusual cuffs. Date: 1932

German male costume of the first half of the 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Advert for Peter Robinsons feather neckwear 1916
Two of the many novel styles and excellent values offered at Peter Robinsons Oxford Street. Fashionable cowl collar in fine quailty ostrich feather

Bristol Bulldog IVA K4292
Bristol Bulldog IVA, K4292, formerly R-7, fitted with a Perseus III radial in a NACA cowl

Apres ski fashion 1953
Suggested outfits for apres ski socialising. On the left is a grey and yellow checked wool taffeta blouse by Jaeger worn with their huge, button-through circular felt skirt

Man and Woman of Lison, Portugal. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Debs Evening Frocks 1933
Debutantes practice their bowing wearing evening dress. The back view of the gowns are reflected in a mirror. Two of the gowns have cowl necklines

Cistercian Monk in Cowl
MONACO CISTERCENSE Cistercian monk in cocolla (cowl, or frock)

Savonarola / Boulonois
Girolamo Maria Francesco Savonarola Italian Reformer

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