Evening Collection (page 54)

Dining by Oil Lamp
Paraffin lamps light up an al fresco outdoor evening drink after a hunt

Party / Girls Laughing
Two flirtatious girls at a party literally crying with laughter at the expense of the men behind them

Vittorio Emanuele Ii / Mar
Vittorio Emanuele II King of Italy

Theatregoers 1929
Fashionable theatregoers out for the evening

Alfred Deakin / V Fair 08
ALFRED DEAKIN Australian politician

Gaspar Cassado / Postcard
GASPAR CASSADO Spanish cellist

Carlyle / Chelsea Moonligh
THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish philosopher and historian, enjoying a moonlit evening outside his Chelsea home

Adult Evening Class
A Free evening class at Louth, Lincolnshire, England, taught by Mr Colam for working men

James Fawn / E Pyke 1927
JAMES FAWN Music hall entertainer

Herbert Campbell / E Pyke
HERBERT CAMPBELL Music hall entertainer

Carl Brisson / Signed
CARL BRISSON Danish film actor, based in Britain

Lily Langtry / Celebrities
LILY LANGTRY English actress in a pink evening dress and tiara, holding an elegant fan

Churchill / Venice 1954
WINSTON CHURCHILL British Prime Minister photographed in 1954, during a visit to Venice

Dresses of 1805
Blue day dress with embroidered hem & fingerless gloves, deep red evening robe with melon sleeves, low square corsage with vandyked tucker worn with a turban

Elizabeth / Austria / Album
ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA Wife of her own cousin, Franz Josef I of Austria

Egyptian Frocks 1924
Egyptian influence. Green tube dress with gold fabric draped diagonally from one shoulder & fastened at the hip; black print dress with handkerchief drapery at the hips

Hm Stanley / Vfair 1872
HENRY MORTON STANLEY British journalist and explorer, in evening dress

1911 Silhouette Gose 2
Silhouette of 1911: kimono style evening mantle with eastern style embroidery & cocoon silhouette. These coats were based on Japanese Kabuki costumes

Fashion Plate / 1848 / Men
Evening dress, top coat & gibus hat; Wellesley style wrapper with fur trim & brandenburgs; loose fitting jacket & strapped pantaloons with vertical stripes

Evening Dress / Oct 1803
Yellow gown with round neckline worn with matching turban & slippers. A light blue gown & white tunic with a divided front cut away at the sides and ending in a train. Date: 1803

Charles Godfrey / Pyke
CHARLES GODFREY (Paul Lacey) Music hall singer

Panier Dress ?1777
A lady, in a gown with low, square decolletage and wide hoops or paniers, enters a box at the opera. Possibly a grande robe a la francaise

Fashion September 1832
Presumably evening gowns? they are made of mousselaine & tulle adorned with ribbons at the shoulder. Both ladies wear black slippers, one has a blue scarf round her neck

Advert / Fernando Cocoa
Fernando Cocoa (Milan) for the fortunate few

Couple do the Two-Step
A smartly dressed couple dance the two-step

Boston Two-Step
A French couple dance Le Boston - otherwise known as the Boston Two-Step

Pas De L ours Dance
Is it known as the Bear Trot in the English-speaking countries ? Or is it a purely French phenomenon ? Whichever, a nice illustration by cubist artist Gris

Evening on the Thames
A superbly evocative view of the river Thames in the early evening

Tramp and Pipe
Theres nothing so satisfying, of an evening, as sitting in ones favourite armchair, smoking a pipe

Vagrant & Theatre
A Paris vagrant looks at theatre posters to see how he should pass the evening

Eveving Wear 1862
Evening or Ball dress: skirt with pink & white puffings, white overskirt caught up with bouquets & garlands of roses; green patterned dress, triple skirt & black trim

A Card Game / Le Rire
Four smartly-dressed men and women playing a hand of cards after dinner; one of the ladies wears a fur stole, while another watches through a lorgnette

Evening Dress 1824
Pale yellow gown with short, puffed sleeves. The hem is decorated with 2 rouleaux infilled with puffings & oval shaped designs, topped with paisley pattern trim

Couple Photo / Piano 1930S
A man plays a piano and looks up at a glamorous woman in a long dress who is leaning seductively on a corner of the piano Date: 1930s

Evening Wear 1939
Evening gowns by Balenciaga (with a bustle) and Alix (very thin spaghetti straps)

Naughty Evening Gown
This attention seeking young Frenchwomen, wearing two types of fur, and little else, ensures that all eyes and cameras are on her and not her male escort

Evening Pyjamas 1931
Evening pyjamas and satin coat designed by Jeanne Lanvin

Evening Dress / Patou
Design by August Abernard: flaring gored floral print skirt, draped V neckline & plunging V back, worn with a long light weight scarf that drapes seductively

Thomas / Hamlet / Liebig 3
Act 2: Hamlets choice of evening entertainment alarms his mother. Date: first performed 1868

Upper Class 19C Scene
A group of men and women in their best evening dress near a bandstand in a park at night

Evening Dress 1830
Two ladies, one in EVENING DRESS and her companion in a BALL DRESS hope that their dog won t do anything disastrous to their gowns... that amazing plumed hat is out of its reach

Grape-Trimmed Dress 1840
Dress adorned with bunches of grapes: with a lace falling tucker, pointed waist & short puffed sleeves. The skirt is pinned up on one side. Worn with a plumed tudor style hat

Costume January 1862
Ball / evening dress: pink & white ruched edged flounces, over-skirt hitched up at the sides & ornamented with pink roses. Black pardessus with pagoda sleeves

Evening Promenade C18
" La Promenade du Soir" A young aristocratic gentleman offers a young lady a bunch of flowers in exchange for a romantic evening walk. Date: 18th century

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