Eyeglass Collection

Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal Family
Advertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841

Cicely Courtneidge as an Eton-cropped flapper
Actress Cicely Courtneidge made up as a typical eton-cropped, cigarette-smoking flapper in Cleansing the Stage sketch in the revue, " By the Way". Date: 1925

NAPOLEON AT WAGRAM
BATTLE OF WAGRAM Napoleon watches his men defeat the Austrians, using an eyeglass Date: 5-6 July 1809

A lecherous German man eyeing-up his companion for the night in a German Brothel, her getting undressed is reflected in his monacle. Date: 1910s

Man riding an emu on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

A smart, rather odd German Military Officer
A smart, yet rather odd-looking German Military Officer, wearing a monacle and smoking a cigarette. Date: 1913

The Evil Eye -- woman looking at someone from behind a fan. circa 1850s

Henry Grattan / A Pope
HENRY GRATTAN Irish politician, with his Declaration of Rights Date: 1746 - 1820

William Hepworth Dixon
WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON English journalist and historian, Editor of The Athenaeum Date: 1821 - 1879

Douglas Jerrold / Sartain
DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD English playwright and humourist; contributor to Punch Date: 1803 - 1857

We Gladstone / 1886 Pm
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE British Liberal MP and Prime Minister in 1886 Date: 1809 - 1898

Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, 1842-1885, balloonist
WARREN DE LA RUE English astronomer and inventor in 1882 Date: 1815 - 1889

Major-General W. S. Brancker
Major-General Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877-1930), civil aviation pioneer, portrayed by Lieutenant Percival Anderson during the First World War when he was Comptroller-General of Equipment

Fashionable gentleman aping the Frenchman
A satirical illustration about fashion for English gentlemen aping extreme French fashions in revolutionary France. This affected gentleman wears a Parisian-style tall hat

A Rain-beau c. 1790
A jessamy - 1790. A fashionable man with an eyeglass or monocle, a cocked hat, cut away coat with a high collar, tight breeches

The Second in Command - Mr and Mrs Binks
Mr and Mrs Binks - A very funny cartoon by Phil May showing a VERY dominant Woman (wearing a monacle) leading her subservient and tiny husband and their small son along the street

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