Demure Collection

Errol Flynn / Robin Hood
ERROL FLYNN Irish-American film actor as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian

Prostitute / Cora Pearl
Cora Pearl, alias Emma Crouch, courtesan

Mary Quant Ginger Group dresses in Liberty print, 1964
Traditional Libert print used for a new-old look in Mary Quants Ginger Group collection. Fashioned in demure covered-up little dresses with pique collars and cuffs

Jennie Churchill / Pse1885
JENNIE JEROME LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Later wife of George Cornwallis-West

Female Type / Topless 1920
Demure-looking young woman, going topless

Tango craze: British ballroom version imagined, 1913
" The tango untangled, and made suitable for use in British ballrooms." The Bystander imagines a sanitised version of the tango, suitable for dancing in respectable British ballrooms

Jennie Churchill / Cdv
JENNIE JEROME LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Later wife of George Cornwallis-West

Poster advertising Cooks Pure Toilet Soaps. Ed. Cook Ltd, East London

Dudley / Georgina Photo
GEORGINA, COUNTESS OF DUDLEY Daughter of Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Bt; married (as 2nd wife) 1st Earl of Dudley in 1865

Vesta Victoria music hall comic singer 1873-1951
Vesta Victoria (Victoria Lawrence) music hall singer and character comedienne. Born in Leeds but affected a cockney stage persona. Demure pose with hands in fur muff

Bessie Bellwood music hall singer 1856-1896
Bessie Bellwood (Catherine Mahoney) music hall singer who engaged with her audience and had a reputation for putting down the toughest of hecklers. Carte de visite advertising Taunus table water

Swedish Film Actress Greta Garbo - Torrent, 1926
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) - Swedish Film Actress and Movie Star. Garbo was born in Stockholm and was spotted whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz

A leetle English Mees! A fashionable young thing from Brighton with white fox fur hat, scarf and muff and even a matching ruff for her French Bulldog! Date: 1911

Diana Napier, Actress
A sketch by Webster Murray of the actress Diana Napier (1905-1982), near the beginning of her film career. Date: circa 1932

Lilian Bond (1908-1991) was an English actress who achieved success in the United States and made many film appearances. Her film The Dancing Partner was shortly to open in London. Date: circa 1931

Elizabeth Taylor, English actress Date: 1951

Viscountess Bridport, formerly Pamela Baker before her marriage to Rowland Hood, 3rd Viscount Bridport in 1934. Date: 1939

Portrait of Lady Islington
Anne Dundas, Lady Islington, was the wife of Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Governor-General of New Zealand from 1910 until 1912. Date: 1910

Portrait of a Miss Gebhard
Miss Gebhard, an American whose family appear to have taken residence at Corsham Court in Wiltshire. Date: 1910

Vanessa Redgrave, renowned English actress
Vanessa Redgrave (b 1937), renowned English actress of stage, screen and television, and political activist. Date: circa 1950s

Isa Bowman, actress Date: 1890s

Advert, Carpenter Organs, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA -- young lady with a basket of flowers. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1880s

A French schoolgirl. Date: 1851

EVENING DRESS 1816
Gown with high waist situated just below the bust. The sleeves & hemline are lavishly adorned with flowers & foliage. Lace edged gloves & a turban with aigrette are worn. Date: 1816

YELLOW EVENING GOWN 1823
Yellow gown with intricate detailing at hem, sleeves & bodice & with a star-burst detail at the bust. She wears flowers & feathers in her hair & a holds a sheer scarf. Date: 1823

FLOWER ARRANGING 1836
A demure young blonde Englishwoman allows a little time to arranges some flowers before attending an evening function. Date: 1836

Mary Pickford - Canadian motion picture actress
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) - Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Mrs. John Bowes Lyon
Fenella Bowes Lyon(1917-1980), second daughter of Lord and Lady Clinton, pictured shortly after her marriage to John Bowes Lyon

Cover design, Signs of Autumn by Wilton Williams. 1922

Debutante queuing in the Mall by Rex Whistler
A shy debutante, accompanied by an imperious and matronly chaperone, sits in her chauffeur-driven car in the Mall, waiting to gain entrance to Buckingham Palace where she will be presented at court

Young Victorian woman in pink crinoline
A young Victorian woman in an enormous pink crinoline evening dress decorated with roses. She has matching roses in her hair, and a fan in her hand. Date: circa 1860

Female Type / Demure 1820S
" Grandmothers Girlhood" : a demure young woman in a white dress

Daddy Longlegs by Jean Webster. First produced in England at the Duke of Yorks Theatre on 29th May 1916. The text at the bottom left of the poster reads A Full of Smiles Play by Jean Webster

The Belle of Mayfair, by Brookfield and Hamilton
The Belle of Mayfair, a musical comedy by Charles H E Brookfield and Cosmo Hamilton, with lyrics by George Arthurs and music by Leslie Stuart

Evelyn Laye in Betty in Mayfair, by J Hastings Turner
Evelyn Laye (1900-1996), English actress and singer, at the time she was appearing in the musical Betty in Mayfair at the Adelphi Theatre, London, in November 1925

Victorian scrap - Maid
Victorian scrap - Types of People - Maid. late 19th century

Fashionable lady wearing a demure bathing cap
A young fashionable lady wearing a " delightfully demure" rose-pink rubber bathing cap with white streamers and turn-back front from Marshall & Snelgrove, Oxford Street, London. Date: 1923

Demure child seated
Simplicity Monochrome print of a demure child in a woodland setting. Date: circa 1780

Constance Talmadge - silent movie star
Constance Talmadge (1898-1973) - Gaumont " Select Pictures" silent movie star. Date: circa 1920s

Elegant woman in green on a scrap. Date: circa 1900s

Elegant woman in pink on a scrap. Date: circa 1900s

Caricature of Alma Stanley, British actress and singer
Caricature of Alma Stuart Stanley (1854-1931), British actress and singer. 1880

Caricature of Florence St John, singer and actress
Caricature of Florence St John (1855-1912), English singer and actress -- I am such an artless thing. Seen here in the role of Girola in Manteaux Noirs

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Snap the Photographers Daughter. circa 1930s

Isabel Jeans (1891 1985), British actress of stage and screen

Tree / Helen Maud Holt
MRS BEERBOHM TREE (Helen Maud HOLT) English actress, wife of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Date: 1863 - 1937

What People Are Wearing - Viscountess Dunluce
The Viscountess Dunluce wearing a demure dress which she bought short, found matching material and had it transformed into this long dress. Date: 1966

Young Victorian woman
A young Victorian woman on a carte de visite. Date: circa 1870s

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