Fair Gallery

Frost Fair on the Thames by Pauline Baynes

Illustration painted for Holly Leaves by Pauline Baynes showing Londoners in 1683-4 enjoying the delights of the Frost Fair on the frozen River Thames. The ice was so thick that market stall, traders and entertainers were able to ply their wares

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Portraits of Victorian royalty, politicians and entertainers

In Vanity Fair -- portraits of Victorian royalty, politicians, entertainers and others, on a stage and below. Top row, left to right: Lord Salisbury and William Gladstone (on canvas), Leslie Ward (sketching), Louis Pasteur (with rabbits), Pablo Sarasate (violinist), Sims Reeves (singing), George Grossmith, Henry Irving (on canvas), Arthur Cecil, John Hare (smoking), Beerbohm Tree, Augustus Harris (in box office), W H Smith (seated). Bottom row, left to right: James Weatherby, Sir Robert Jardine, Lord Hartington, Major Egerton (with monocle), Edmund Tattersall, Prince George of Wales, Duke of Orleans, Duke of Connaught, Dr Tanner, T P O'Connor, Mr Justice Smith. Date: 1890

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The Duchess of Portland

The Duchess of Portland photographed for the front cover of The Tatler looking very serene and practical in a nurse's uniform. She was president of the Great Savoy Fair which was under the patronage of the King and Queen and was opened by Princess Patricia of Connaught. As the caption comments, "The duches is indefatiagable in helping forward every good work, and in her home district in Nottinghamshire, as elsewhere, she is universally beloved"

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