Curtsy Collection

Queen Charlottes Ball 1939
Debutantes curtsy as H.H Princess Helena Victoria cuts a giant birthday cake at Queen Charlottes Ball at Grosvenor House. The ball was one of the most important dates in the social calendar

Debutantes Curtsying
Debutantes learning to curtsy at the famous Josephine Bradley School, preparing to be presented at Buckingham Palace and other High Society events, at the start of the Season. Date: 1930s

Young lady curtsying on a street, 18th century. Copperplate engraving from The Polite Academy, or Instructions for a Genteel Behaviour and Polite Address in Masters and Misses, R

Men Were Deceivers Ever
A painting of a woman in a bright red dress, performing a curtsy to a baby, who is sat on the grass, in the centre of four tall trees

Court presentation, the convolutions of the train
As a society lady is presented at court, the logistical difficulty of curtseying to the Queen while simultaneously trying to manage her huge train, is captured by an ILN artist

Debutantes learning to curtsey, 1929
Debutantes of 1929 learning to curtsey under the guidance of Madame Vacani, in preparation for presentation at court. Date: 1929

Kissing her Majestys hand, learning to curtsey at court
A young woman is tutored in the art of gracefully dropping to a curtsey during her presentation at court at the school of Miss Cowper Coles

Old Mother Hubbard: Dame made a curtsy and dog mad a bow
She went to the tailors to buy him a coat, but when she came back he was riding a goat. The dame made a curtsy, the dog made a bow; the dame said, " your servant" the dog said

Princess Margaret 1953
Miss Isabell Thornicroft presented a bouquet to Princess Margaret, when she opened the Princess Margaret Hospital for Asian & Coloured patients, Salisbury, Rhodesia

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