Extravagant Collection (page 2)

Salamanca University
The extravagant architecture of the front of Salamaca University, Spain, founded in 1218 by Alfonso IX. Date: founded 1218

Prince of the Carnival - Cologne, Germany
Prince of the Carnival - The Rhine Wine Feast held in Cologne, Germany - February 1939. Date: 1939

Mrs Anthony Royle in a hat by Peter Shepherd
Mrs Anthony Royle, wife of the M.P. for Richmond, wearing a bold busby hat transformed into a mass of buttercup petals for summer designed by Peter Shepherd

Greek Anti-Plutocrat Propaganda Postcard
An anti Plutocrat Greek postcard from the Second World War, praising the austere simple pride in the life of a Greek soldier against the extravagant largesse of the Plutocrat

French Noble Pair 1680
A noble couple of the court of Louis XIV : her dress is restrained by comparison with his extravagant garments, including lace bows on his shoes Date: circa 1680

Folies Bergere - dancer
A dancer from the Astronomers Revue at the Folies Bergere, Paris. The dancer is Mademoiselle Geczy, a name that hints of an Eastern European origin

Feather Headdress 1796
A caricature of the extravagant fashions of the period. The womans headdress is composed of ostrich plumes & an aigrette. Date: 1796

Christian Diors Spring Fashion Show, 1948
Christian Berard, the Surrealist painter, seated on the floor, gazing at passing gowns during Christian Diors Spring Fashion show, 1948

Fable / the Two Bees
Two bees, one wise and temperate, the other careless and extravagant, arrive in a garden; one makes provision against the distant winter, the other gorges itself

Illuminated gardens at the Inventions Exhibiton
The gardens, fountains and buildings of South Kensington, illuminated with electric light at the Inventions Exhibition of 1885. The extravagant lighting scheme was the work of Sir Francis Bolton

Gladstone wearing an electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1886 for the Medical Battery Companys Electropathic Belt, featuring a caricature of William Gladstone, Prime Minister wielding an axe and wearing the belt

Warrior of the Congo
A warrior of the Congo (approximately todays Zaire) armed with bow and quiver : his feet are bare but his head is adorned with an extravagant feathered headdress

Twenties Pyjama Suit
Woman in court shoes & silk two-tone lounging pyjamas with belted wrap over jacket & cropped trousers with bell- shaped scallop edged cuffs sits on a lacy bed

Merveilleuses
The extravagant fashions of the MERVEILLEUSES (or sometimes INCROYABLES) are adopted in derisive emulation of the costumes of the erstwhile aristocrats

Roman Satyricon Feast
The absurdly extravagant feast given by the Roman parvenu Trimalchio, in the Satyricon of Petronius

Bird of Paradise
(Paradiseidae) Noted for their extravagant plumage

Extravagant Styles
Coiffeurs at work on an extravagant hair style : a contemporary satire on the fashionable excesses of the late 18th century

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

Extravagant C18 Hair
In this contemporary caricature a fashionable young lady, sporting the magnificent new hairstyle, is so transformed that even her own mother does not recognize her

Thos Howard Suffolk
THOMAS HOWARD, earl of SUFFOLK statesman who suffered from an extravagant and ambitious wife, for which he was fined. His seat was Audley End. - with his autograph

The Macaroni Captains
THE MACARONI CAPTAINS - satire on the young men of fashion whose extravagant dress attracts the attentions of a flock of geese

Extravagant Wife
The complacent husband and the spendthrift wife - tradespeople queuing at the door with expensive clothes and other wares

Incroyables
Fashionable incroyables parade in their extravagant costume in the Palais Royal, Paris

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