Elaborate Collection (page 19)

Costumes de Printemps
Early spring fashions from Paris depicting two ladies taking a walk in the park wearing smart full skirts and matching jackets, topped off by elaborate hats

Peep inside
A lady with an elaborate party hat peeping through curtains

SIX LADIES, 1895
Six ladies in brightly coloured, elaborate and fashionable gowns

Stables at Thirlestaine
The elaborate exterior and interior of the Stables at Thirlestaine House, which were put up for auction, hence the illustrations, which were used to tempt potential buyers

Exotic Bridal Costume
Black woollen suit: cut-away coat, short waistcoat with stand collar, breeches with falls, knitted stockings, pumps, top hat & pink lining, white cravat & shirt ruffles

Dove Cote 1555
An elaborate dovecote in 16th century Scandinavia

Painting Chinese Lantern
A Chinese lantern painter decorates a cylinder lantern, seated outside in front of a fine building with traditional elaborate roof styling

Military / Dress / Musketeer
Musketeer in pink and white court dress, including a hat with elaborate feathers

French Woman 1792
A young Parisienne wears a simple dress but an elaborate hat

Hindostan Woman
A woman of Hindostan. She is either an assistant in a jewelers shop, showing off the goods, or she is doing an elaborate dance which involves jewelry... Date: 1722

Woman of Augsburg
A young woman of Augsburg : note her elaborate coiffure !

Frenchwoman 1576
The upraised gauze wings of this ladys ruff, framing her head, are a fashion novelty which comes in during the reign of Henri III for elaborate party gowns

Racial / Japan / Geisha / Hair
A geisha adjusts her elaborate hair style

Elaborate Card
An elaborate greeting card which can be adapted for just about any occasion - this one happens to be a birthday card

Chippendale Bureau
An elaborate bureau created by Thomas Chippendale (died 1779)

Types of Ruff Late C16Th
French and English ladies wearing elaborate RUFFS

Racial / Japan / Girl / Geisha
A girl (possibly an apprentice geisha) sitting in an elaborate and heavy kimono

Hester Thrale / Hopwood
HESTER THRALE Friend of Dr Samuel Johnson, and wife of the brewer, Henry Thrale; she later married her Italian singing teacher and became Mrs Piozzi

Sheherazade Costumes
SHEHERAZADE Elaborate Persian style costume designs by Bakst

Iraq / Nineveh / Reconstr
A reconstruction of the elaborate exitway to the Kings Palace at Nineveh. This is a reconstruction of the Palace of Sennacherib (c 8BC) or Ashurbanipal (c 7BC)

Mary R Mitford / A Burt
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD English novelist and dramatist

Pearly King / Headstone
The elaborate headstone of Henry Croft who died on 1 January 1930

Horse Caparisoned
A Horse caparisoned (dressed in elaborate harness equipment) in preparation for a tournament. Date: 1511

Chef / George Dolenz
The talented chef George Dolenz, former manager of the Trocadero restaurant in Hollywood, with an array of his culinary delights

Gal-Roman Ceiling / Carnac
A reconstruction of the elaborate ceiling of Gallo- Roman villa at Bossemo, an ancient site 2 miles to the east of Carnac

French Woman 1778
An aristocrat in a fashionably bulked-out skirt : her elaborate hair-do is topped with a strange head-dress with net like wings

Reading by a Fountain
A girl in a white dress with flowers in her hair reads in the garden beside an elaborate fountain

Rail Accident Cleared
Accidents will happen in spite of the most elaborate precautions - and when they do, the wrecking crane is brought in to shift the wreckage and clear the line

Fashions / Toudouze 1875
Jacket bodices with stand-up collars in grey & black - front buttoning & with pocket flaps or sleeveless in brown with a pink plaid under-dress & elaborate trained skirt

Entranceway at Angkor
A close-up view of the Eastern entrance to the central building at the temple complex of Angkor Wat

Moy & Shills Project
MOY AND SHILLs PROJECT An elaborate machine with massive propellors and relatively small wings

Card with Lovers
An elaborate Victorian card showing two lovers - the male figure can be made to stand or kneel by pulling a tab !

Mohave Americans
Two warriors and a squaw of the Mohave people : all wear elaborate tattoos covering the greater part of their bodies

Bird Dance / Japan / 1862
An elegant dancer performing the Bird Dance in a elaborate costume and headdress

Mendelssohn / Wills Cig
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer in middle age

Rouen / Palais De Justice
The elaborate exterior of the Palace of Justice in Rouen

Costume / Baby C. 1900
A baby in long clothes & an elaborate high lacy bonnet has its photograph taken with its nurse maid who wears a short cape, square shaped headgear & apron with a scalloped edge

Female Type / Sassoon 19C
An elegant Victorian woman in an elaborate white dress: Mrs Sassoon, possibly an actress

Dutch Trading Vessels
A fine engraving of Dutch trading vessels, showing the distinctive rounded hull, and elaborate carvings both fore and aft

Wedding Cake / 1885
A fine wedding cake which can be supplied on shortest notice by A Dressler, a refreshment contractor on Clapham Road, London

Two Metal Cradles
Two elaborate metal cradles by H W Winfield of Cambridge Street works, Birmingham

Hat Styles for 1787
Hats profusely ornamented with feathers, bows, ribbons & flowers. Stripes are very much in vogue. Some have broad flat brims, others have a brim that tapers outwards & downwards

D-B Varsity Suit 1907
American suit: D-B Varsity with broad lapels, shaped cuffs, double pocket flaps & loose-hip trousers tapering at the ankle. A tad too elaborate to be considered elegant

Chair-Making C1760
Two French craftsmen work on the elaborate upholstery on a pair of Louis XV style Fauteuils (armchairs)

Revolutionary Officials
Uniforms of French Revolutionary officials are elaborate with much gold braid & tassels. Garments include cloaks, capes & sashes. One carries a sword

Spinning, Flanders
a Flemish housewife at her elaborate and elegant spinning wheel

Showgirl Colette Jove
Mademoiselle Colette Jove at the Casino de Paris, wearing an elaborate headpiece

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