Crinoline Collection (page 6)

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, The Great Adventure, with an orange tree at the centre. Date: 1921

Humpty the rabbit trying on pantalettes and crinoline in preparation for a fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

Cover design, Weldons Beautiful Needlework, No. 2, showing a young woman in a crinoline dress sewing. Date: circa 1920s

Victorian woman in studio portrait
Middle-aged Victorian woman in a studio portrait, smiling at the camera. Date: circa 1860s

The Crinoline by Miss Haddon Chambers
Stylised illustration showing a woman dressed up in a Victorian crinoline, accompanied by a man in a Pierrot costume. Date: 1918

Woman in purple crinoline
Woman in an enormous purple crinoline, holding a bunch of flowers. Date: 20th century

Mistletoe thwarted by crinoline, 1857
A young man curses the invention of crinoline skirts, preventing him from accessing the object of his affections, waiting coyly beneath the mistletoe. 1857

Humpty and Dumpty in Victorian fancy dress
Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits getting into Victorian costume, ready for their fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

Girl sleeping on bed in crinoline dress by Millais
Illustration from Framley Parsonage depicting a girl asleep on a bed in a crinoline dress by J.E. Millais Date: 1925

Group of people at a ball
Harlequin illustration, showing a group of people at a ball. Date: 1923

Harlequin and Columbine outside a shop
Harlequin illustration, showing Harlequin, Columbine and another woman outside a shop. Date: 1923

Columbine
Harlequin illustration, showing Columbine in a garden. Date: 1923

Chocolate box design, 18th century scene
Chocolate box design, featuring three 18th century people in a fantasy scene. Date: 20th century

Chocolate box design, lady by lily pond
Chocolate box design, showing a lady in a yellow dress standing by a purple and gold lily pond. Date: 20th century

Chocolate box design, lady in yellow dress
Chocolate box design, featuring a lady in a wide-skirted yellow dress, standing in a winter landscape with a bird perched on her hand. Date: 20th century

Chocolate box design, ladies dancing
Chocolate box design, with ladies in crinoline dresses dancing round a tree. Date: 20th century

Chocolate box design, couple and coach
Chocolate box design, showing an 18th century scene of a couple greeting each other, with a coach and footmen in the background. Date: 20th century

Chocolate box design, couple with dog
Chocolate box design, showing an 18th century scene of a couple in a garden, training a dog to beg. Date: 20th century

Label design with fancy dress couple
Label design or gift tag featuring a couple in fancy dress

Chocolate box design, couple in a garden
Chocolate box design, featuring an 18th century couple in a garden, the lady in a wide crinoline sitting on a bench, the man serenading her with a flute or clarinet. Date: 20th century

Business card design, woman in yellow dress
Business card design, depicting a woman in a voluminous yellow dress and matching turban, holding a red rose. Date: 20th century

Business card design, woman in red dress
Business card design, depicting a woman in a voluminous red dress, carrying a bouquet of yellow roses. Date: 20th century

Rooftop Crinoline
Old and new fashions on a London rooftop, one woman in modern clothes and the other in a rather incongruous mix of a crinoline worn with a modern top and tricorn style hat! Date: 1931

19th century mother and baby
A woman in a crinoline from the mid-19th century tenderly hugs her small baby close to her while fairies and cherubs look with curiosity towards her and a wooden crib. Date: 1926

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover, 1927
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1927 entitled A Crinoline Christmas. A lady in a voluminous yellow crinoline dress stands precariously on a chair to place candles on the bough of a

21st birthday card with lady gathering flowers
A 21st birthday card, showing a lady in a bonnet and crinoline dress gathering flowers in an idyllic cottage garden. Date: 1936

Victorian woman with two children
A middle aged Victorian woman poses with two children in the photographers studio. She has a rather serious expression on her face, and the children look bored. Date: late 19th century

Three French ladies in crinolines

Two women and a child in the latest French fashions. The woman on the left wears a black and purple dress, while the woman on the right wears a green dress with a black velvet cloak

Floral lady by George Ranstead
Silhouette style drawing of a lady in a crinoline style dress and flower decorated hat holding a jug of flowers. Drawn by George Ranstead

Maid and Crinoline
When crinolines are in fashion, household breakages are apt to be even more frequent than usual... Date: 1864

Female Type / Rice Powder
An elegant 18th century lady, only half dressed, uses her Poudre de Ris to make herself even more attractive. Date: 1911

Alexandra / Mayall Cdv
QUEEN ALEXANDRA Wife of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), reading a book Date: 1844 - 1925

Edward Vii / Alexandra Cdv
EDWARD VII Wales, with his bride, Princess Alexandra, at Sandringham in 1863, the year of their wedding Date: 1841 - 1910

Middle-aged Victorian woman in a dark crinoline dress
A middle-aged Victorian woman in a dark crinoline dress, standing near a chair in the photographers studio

Victorian woman in a crinoline dress
A Victorian woman in a striped crinoline dress with a dark lacy shawl round the skirt

Victorian woman in a dark crinoline dress
A Victorian woman in a dark crinoline dress

Middle-aged Victorian woman in a crinoline dress
A middle-aged Victorian woman in a crinoline dress made of satin material

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Cat - Old Maid
Poor puss. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a crinoline wearing old maid from a cat. Her footstool evolves into a poor man who gets trapped inside her crinoline cage

Origin Species, CH Bennett, husband hunter - mouse
Little Mousey. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a young woman on the look out for a husband, from a mouse

Paris Fashions for September 1859
From left, a highed necked walking dress with one deep flounce at the bottom of the skirt edged with narrow velvet, and five small plaited flounces above also edged with narrow velvet

Music cover for The Grand International Lancers by C C Amos, depicting a crowd of people outside the Crystal Palace at the time of the Great Exhibition

Miniatures for Piano, music cover
Cover design for a book of piano music for children, Treasures from an Old Oak Chest, Miniatures for Piano by H Baynton-Power

Young Victorian woman reading a letter
A young Victorian woman poses in the photographers studio, sitting on an upholstered chair reading a letter. She is wearing a wide crinoline dress with zigzag designs on the bodice

Elderly Victorian woman in a crinoline dress
An elderly Victorian woman in a dark crinoline dress sitting at the side of an ornate desk in the photographers studio. She wears a white bonnet and is looking rather severe

Richmond Hill, Surrey
Fashionable promenaders on Richmond Hill, formerly in Surrey but now part of the London Borough of Richmond

Head-wear Fashions for May 1850
Illustration showing a Crinoline hat, designed to be worn to the opera, 1850

Crinoline Shape Mid1860S
An early 20th century stylised depiction of a woman wearing a cage crinoline typical of the shape fashionable from around 1863 until 1867

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