Engagement Collection (page 6)

Princess Margaret of Connaught
Princess Margaret ( Daisy ) of Connaught (1882 - 1920), sketched by C. Wilmshurst just prior to her marriage to Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden on 15 June 1905

A Pressing Engagement
Gentleman demonstrating a simple device for the correction of neglected figures in time for the dancing season. Illustration by William Heath Robinson

Admiring jewellery in the sunshine
A woman examines her emerald jewellery in the sunlight, her partner looking on anxiously, hoping she will approve

Announcement of Captain Scotts engagement in The Tatler
Page from The Tatler announcing not only the engagement of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the Polar explorer to Kathleen Bruce, but also featuring a portrait of Clementine Hozier

Will You Be Mine by Florence Hardy
A couple from the late 18th century hold hands as they walk through the snow; the gentleman conveniently holds a bunch of mistletoe

The Future Mrs Winston Churchill
Clementine Churchill while still Miss Clementine Hozier, featured in The Sketch magazine in the week prior to her marriage to Winston Churchilll on 12th September 1908

Envelope from the Titanic
An envelope, postmarked Southampton, 10 April 1912, addressed to Irvine Aitchison Esq of Sherwood, Beckenham, Kent. It contained a letter from his fiancee on White Star Line RMS Titanic headed paper

The Kitchenmaid and the Constable
A humourous photograph of a kitchenmaid, busy doing the washing up, being proposed to by her policeman admirer. The photograph is entitled Cupboard Love

The Humorist Christmas Number 1938 - An Ice Proposal
Front cover illustration by William Heath Robinson featuring a group of skaters on a frozen pond. A man etches a question mark on the ice with his skates and his girlfriend responds

Elizabeth Ponsonby and Denis Pelly
Portrait of Elizabeth Ponsonby and Denis Pelly featured in The Tatler on the announcement of their engagement

Prince George and war ambulance
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace with Mr Hansell

Engagement of Ena of Battenberg

Prince Arthurs engagement
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) in 1878 with his fiancee Luise Margarete of Prussia and her sisters, Marie (centre)

Prince Leopolds engagement
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1855-1884) and his future wife, Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont in 1881. The fourth son and eight child of Queen Victoria

The Write of Way
Cartoon, The Write of Way. Love at first sight as a couple propose and accept by writing in the sky with an plane and on the ground in a car

Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, 1874
Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, by two vessels of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Rifleman and H.M.S. Philomel and the Hugh Rose, a vessel from the Bombay Marine service

A Naval Engagement
A sailor looking at love letters while women look on during World War One. Credit should read: Estate of George Studdy/Gresham Marketing Ltd./ILN/Mary Evans

Prince Albert at a public engagement in Liverpool
Prince Albert laying the foundation stone of the Sailors Home in Liverpool. Thousands of people attended this public engagement of the Prince on 31 July 1846

Cumberland / Hohenzollern
VIKTORIA LUISE, only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, pictured with her fiancee, Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick- Luneburg, son of the Duke & Duchess of Cumberland

Prussian Royal Marriage
VIKTORIA LUISE, only daughter of the Kaiser, pictured with her fiancee Prince Ernst Augustus of Brunswick Luneburg, son of the Duke & Duchess of Cumberland

Irina and Felix Youssoupoff
Engagement photograph showing Princess Irina Alexandrovna, only daughter of Prince Alexander Mikhailovich, and Prince Felix Yusupov

Battle of Guinegatte - 1
The French cavalry are put to flight by a combined Imperial and English force : they retreat so precipatedly that the engagement is known as the battle of the spurs

Battle of Guinegatte - 2
The French cavalry are put to flight by a combined Imperial and English force : they retreat so precipatedly that the engagement is known as the battle of the spurs

Aviators chasing the enemy
A French parasol monoplane flying at nearly 10, 000 feet, photographed by another French machine. The photograph was taken during an engagement with German aircraft near Nancy

Wounded French Soldiers entering Paris; Franco-Prussian War
Engraving showing French soldiers wounded in the engagement with the Prussians at Chatillon returning to Paris, 1870. This scene, on the Chausee de Maine

Cavalry at Bulganak
Cavalry engagement at Bulganak

The Civil War in America. The interior of Fort Sumter, Charl
The interior of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbour, after a continuous bombardment by the Federal batteries on Morrs Island. Fort Sumter provided the first engagement of the civil War

The Defences of Charleston; American Civil War, 1863
Panorama showing the cannon and fortifications built by the Confederates at Charleston, in anticipation of a major engagement with the Federal Army

The Civil War in America: naval engagement in Hampton Roads
The confederate iron-plated steamer Merrimac, running into the Federal sloop, Cumberland, from a sketch by T. Nast. This encounter had one important result; the Federals realised that wooden ships

The Civil war in America. The fight for the rifle-pits in fr
Fort Wagner in South Carolina was the scene of bitter fighting in 1863, as this violent and dramatic engagement shows

The Civil war in America: engagement between the 71st New Yo
The First Battle of Bull Run took place on July 21st 1861 and was the first major land battle of the Civil war. The Union army was defeated by Confederate General Stonewall Jackson

The Engagement Ring
Engraving from 1895 showing a young woman sat in a chair by the fire admiring the engagement ring on her left hand. The room she is sitting in has a typically ornate late-Victorian interior

Battle of Straffard
BATTLE OF STRAFFARD - our guess is that this is a minor engagement during Cromwells infamous subjugation of Ireland. We have failed to find any reference to it

Battle of San Domingo
NAVAL BATTLE Engagement off San Domingo, in which the British defeat the French and take two of their warships

Sophie Charlotte 1867
PRINCESS SOPHIE CHARLOTTE Photographed with her long hair combed down, in 1867 during her brief engagement to her cousin, Ludwig II of Bavaria, at his request

Female Type / Engagement
A young American woman looks at her engagement ring with satisfaction

Naval Action 1798
NAVAL ACTION OFF CANDIA Engagement between the British warship Leander and the French Le Genereux

Battle of Shiloh / Elson
THE BATTLE OF SHILOH An engagement between Union forces under General Grant and Confederate forces under Albert Johnston. Losses were heavy on both sides

Lake Champlain Battle
The naval engagement on Lake Champlain between gunboats of the British and American colonial forces

Lion Sinks a Cruiser
In a naval engagement off Heligoland, the Lion sinks a German cruiser

Hand to Hand 1917
Hand-to-hand engagement in the trenches on the Chemin des Dames, a scene of bitter fighting

Russo-Turkish Cavalry
Cavalry engagement between Russian and Turkish lancers at Eski-Saghra

Engagement Announced
Anticipation: the couple are congratulated upon their engagement

Indians Troops at Marne
Indian troops in hand-to-hand engagement with German infantry during the Marne operations

Battle of Kentish Knock
BATTLE OF THE KENTISH KNOCK 1st Anglo-Dutch War. Admiral Witte de With & the Dutch fleet engage the English, led by Blake but are beaten back with severe losses

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