Fancy Collection (page 14)

Fancy Wood Tables, Plate 101. 5
Fancy Wood Tables, Plate 101.5, showing a range of tables, some with squares marked for chess and draughts. Date: circa 1880s

Never mind... flakes provided they have drink
A drunken couple after a night out celebrating the New Year. Date: 1928

Metal Age. Gold ornaments with lions head. Womans grave from Arsley, Funen, 4th century. National Museum of Denmark

Birthday card for an 8th Birthday - one of the two children playing amid the large number eight is dressed in Red Indian (Indigenous Native American) costume. Date: 1930s

Little girl in fancy dress on a Valentine card
Little girl in a mask and fancy dress on a Valentine card. Date: early 20th century

Music cover, Strictly Proper, sung by Arthur Roberts
Music cover, Strictly Proper, words by Ts Lonsdale, music by W C Eaton, sung by Arthur Roberts. circa 1880s

Cartoon, Fancy Picture -- Primrose Hill. People climb the hill to do some sightseeing. A caricature of the comic actor J W Hill. 1881

Christmas card, Clown and lady with cracker
Christmas card, Clown and lady pulling a cracker. early 20th century

Five children dancing on a Christmas card
Five children dancing in fancy dress on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Little girl in large fancy dress hat, being comforted by a woman. Perhaps she didn t win the competition! Date: 1970s

Boy in clown costume
Boy in a clown costume decorated with patches. Date: 1970s

A fine Edwardian automobile Date: circa 1913

Mrs Fitzgerald of Naseby
MRS FITZGERALD, wife of John Fitzgerald of Naseby, depicted wearing a fancy coiffure, holding a fan, a shawl and a lacy handkerchief... Date: CIRCA 1833

Jan Baptist Van Deynum
JAN BAPTIST VAN DEYNUM Flemish artist, and something of a fancy dresser, too. Date: 1620 - 1669

Philippe De Coulanges 2
PHILIPPE EMANUEL, marquis de COULANGES Relative and correspondent of Madame de Sevigne, shown wearing some fancy costume perhaps to do with pilgrimage. Date: 1631 - 1716

Georgiana Codrington 2
GEORGIANA CODRINGTON (nee Somerset) daughter of the duke of Beaufort, wife of Christopher W Codrington, in her costume for Victorias Fancy Ball, 1848. Date: ? - 1884

Piero Paolo Bissaro
PIERO PAOLO (PIERRE PAUL) BISSARO - Italian jurist, in his finest clothes - fancy lace collar and cuffs, and a whopping great crucifix dangling from a necklace ! Date: 17TH CENTURY

Gingerbread Men
Richly Decorated Fancy Figures in Fermented Sweet Dough - traditional and modern shapes (note the golfer !) not necessarily made with ginger. Date: circa 1930

Carnival celebrations
A young woman in Carnival mood! Date: 1923

Female Type 1901
An attractive woman wearing a fancy hat with pink and black feathers, and carrying a fan. Date: 1901

Aesthetic Dress 1884
Yellow-green classically inspired gown with peacock blue & patterned border. Satirical take on Artistic dress that made an appearance in England from the late 1870s Date: 1884

Red Indian Costume Boy
A young boy wears a native American outfit made of brown casement, trimmed with a red fringe and red appliques, and completed by a feathered headdress with wooden beads. Date: 28 December 1935

Midnight Ball at Savoy
The Midnight Ball at the Savoy Hotel, London - a fancy dress affair Date: 1914

Students Carnival
The students carnival in Brussels, where a lot of people are dressed as crocodiles Date: 1859

Bal Des Livres 1909
Le Bal des Livres : M et Mme Adolphe Brisson invite their friends to a ball where each must come as a character from a famous book Date: 1909

VICTORIAs BALL 1842
VICTORIAs PLANTAGANET BALL At Buckingham Palace; all of the guests wore 14th century dress (Victoria and Albert appeared as Edward III and Philippa of Hainault). Date: 12 May 1842

Frederick V / Danish Royal
FREDERICK V King of Denmark and Norway (1746-66) Date: 1723 - 1766

COUPLE YANKEE
Two girls wearing costumes allegorically representing a French persons conception of what is characteristic of America... Date: late 19th century

Fancy Dress, London
A fancy dress ball at the Savoy Hotel, London Date: 1914

Parisians in Fancy Dress
Parisians in fancy dress Date: 1928

Bal Gavarni 1904
Le Bal Gavarni : to raise money for a monument to the artist Gavarni, a ball is held in Montmartre where guests come dressed as characters from his illustrations Date: 1904

Browning Punch Sambourne
ROBERT BROWNING the English poet in one of Punchs Fancy Portraits, in a satire on his epic poem, The Ring and the Book Date: 1812 - 1889

Tennyson Waddy
Alfred lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) the English poet and Poet Laureate whose poetic fancy has helped him make a name for himself on the swing of popularity

Lady in Carnival Mask
Lady at a masked ball during the Munich carnival 1897

Fancy Dress / 1835 / Lante
A French fancy dress party Date: circa 1835

Military / Dress / 15th Cent
Armour and helmets - the more fancy ones were intended for use in the tournament rather than the battlefield Date: 14th/15th centuries

Carnival in Munich, Germany
People at a carnival in Munich, Germany, some of them in fancy dress. Date: 1907

Woman in fancy dress to celebrate the New Year 1916
I left her on the beach at Honolulu... A woman in fancy dress to celebrate the New Year as part of the Ziegfeld Follies. Date: 1916

Little Red Riding Hood fancy dress
A quartet in fancy dress costume dressed up as the main characters in the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf costume is particularly sinister. Date: c.1910

Fancy ice moulds in pewter 1887
Page selection of birds, fish, fruit and vegtables for ice moulds. Date: 1887

Advertisement for Selfridges in the Sketch
Black and white half page advertisement for Nursery Rhyme fancy dress characters in the Juvenile Fancy Dress Department at Selfridges

Advertisement for Harrods in the Sketch
Black and white half-page advertisement for Harrods Fancy Dress department in the Sketch, 28th November 1928. Date: 28th November 1928

Little girls in nursery rhyme fancy dress
Six little girls dressed up in fancy dress as various nursery rhyme characters. (At a guess), from left, Mary Mary, Quite Contrary, Little Jack Horner, Little Bo Peep, Little Boy Blue

Womens bustle 1886
Side view of a woman wearing a plain plaited striped skirt and jacket with a ledged bustle. 1886

Man pulling pram and children uphill, c. 1820
A rotund gentleman struggles to pull his two children in a pram uphill as his over-dressed wife follows on behind. The children look like they are rather enjoying this experience

Fancy Dress for Winter sports holiday carnival - radish
Suggestions for a fancy dress costume appropriate for a carnival as part of a winter sports holiday programme. Available from Dickins and Jones. Date: 1928

WW1 - Patriotic Fancy Dress
WW1 era - British Home front - A remarkable set of 3 postcards featuring three women, two of whom are dressed in patriotic fancy dress

The Elements
Beautiful illustration of five women dressed as the elements: Air, Fire, Earth, Water and Geology. Date: c. 1890

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