Feather Collection (page 17)

Lady & Messengers 1560S
Men: doublets, large sleeves with panes & bows, voluminous hose & canions with bows at the knees, or buskins & spurs. Noblewoman: ornate petticoat, feather fan. Date: late 1560s

Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, cut-fingered pumps. Woman: sleeves with deep fur cuffs, Spanish farthingale. Date: mid 16th century

French Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, ermine lined gown. Woman: bodice & skirt fastens down the front with bows. Date: mid 16th century

Male Costume C16Th
An interpretation of C16th costume: cap with a feather, striped stockings & heeled shoes with roses, skirted doublet & an ermine lined half- gown with hanging sleeves. Date: c16th

Cartoon, Victim of food. A young French woman is being courted by a baron, but her mother has made her promise to flirt only with the dairymans son. Date: 1919

Evening Dress 1889
Countess Cadogan in a decollete evening gown with deep V neckline, pointed bodice, box-pleated skirt & a cascade of drapery at the back. Date: 1889

Ruby Ray, performer, comes from an artistic family, her grandfather being the late Erskine Nicol A.R.A. She was bornin Buenos Ayres

Ossi Oswalda with Fan
Actress Ossi Oswalda holds a folding fan with decorative sticks covered in ostrich plumes. Her gauze hat is also trimmed with feathers - this time its osprey. Date: early 1920s

Green Velvet Coat 1899
Long dark green velvet single- breasted coat with large gold buttons & fur yoke, cuffs, collar & epaulettes. Accessories: felt hat with feather trim & parasol. Date: 1899

Autumn Dress 1899
Grey & black dress: open bodice, embroidered revers with short cape, gored skirt with pleated panels contained to the knee with cords & buttons & flaring out below. 1899

Tweed Lady Shooting
A huntress wears a tweed tailored suit of skirt and jacket, with a tyrolese hat with feather cockade Date: 1930s

Circa 1820 Costume
Four fashionable ladies are charmed by a parrot. One gown has an elaborate stomacher & full, puffed sleeves. Two ladies wear pelisses with highly decorative detailing Date: early 1820s

Advert for Jays womens coats 1923
Utra-smart autumn race coat, single breasted with two large buttons, high stand wide collar with fur trim and also to cuffs. 1923

Ethel Matthews 1906
ETHEL MATTHEWS Musical comedy actress Date: 1906

Afternoon Dress 1801
A yellow gown trimmed in blue & black with a ruff & matching turban & plume. A white gown worn with a red spencer & white ruff & feather headdress. Date: 1801

Male Dandy / 15C Strutt
The dandies of the day take the phrase a feather in your cap literally, and in a big way - fine on a still day, not so good in a high wind Date: 15th century

Camille Clifford with fiance
Camille Clifford, Actress, with her fiance The Honourable Henry Lyndhurst Bruce Date: 1906

Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983), American film actress, wearing a cloche hat with a feather

Advert Geo. Poland & Son furs
Fur garmants, renowned for reliable furs. Available from Oxford Street, London. 1909

WOMENs COAT 1940
A double-breasted woollen coat with broad lapels and 4 buttons. Accessories include a hat with felt feather decoration and leather handbag and gloves. Date: 1940

Mildmay / Sir Anthony
SIR ANTHONY MILDMAY Ambassador to France Date: - 1617

Marie De Hautefort / Lante
MARIE DE HAUTEFORT DUCHESSE DE SCHOMBERG Lady of the French court Date: 1616 - 1691

Vittorio Emanuele II
VITTORIO EMANUELE II King of Italy satirised as a bandit Date: 1820 - 1878

Joan of Arc / R Page
JOAN OF ARC French heroine in armour and feather-topped hat, with sword in hand Date: 1412? - 1431

Joan of Arc / Cooper
JOAN OF ARC French heroine in a dress and feather-topped hat, with sword in hand Date: 1412? - 1431

Joan of Arc / Marshall
JOAN OF ARC French heroine in feather-topped helmet and armour Date: 1412? - 1431

Edwardian bows, floral and feathered hats 1909
Seletion of fashionable hats: toque, brimless hat that had a very wide crown and Merry Widow a large hat with a large brim, trimmed with bows, satin ribbon, plumed feathers and flowers. 1909

Jovial Party Goers / Sie
Jovial guests at a party. Date: circa 1908

Charles Beresford / China
CHARLES WILLIAM BERESFORD Charles William de la Poer Known as Lord Charles - British naval officer, satirised here for his interest in China Date: 1846 - 1919

Monitari man performing the Dog Dance
A Monitari man performing the Dog Dance

Edward Vi / Chapman
EDWARD VI King of England Date: 1537 - 1553

Tycho Brahe / Blanchon
TYCHO BRAHE Danish Astronomer Date: 1546 - 1601

Men / Headwear / C14 / Strutt
Examples of headwear worn by English men. Date: 14th century

Sir (George) Anderson Critchett - Eye Surgeon
MOZAFFAR OD-DIN SHAH Shah of Iran (1896-1907), an unpopular and incompetent ruler Date: 1852 - 1907

Examples of the newest millery 1909
Two Edwardian women wearing toques hats. (left) Hat of black crinoline trimmed high in front with some upright ostrich feathers, held in place with jet black buttons

J. Boswell / London Mag
JAMES BOSWELL Scottish lawyer and biographer of Samuel Johnson, pictured here in the dress of a Corsican chief. Date: 1740 - 1795

Merry Widow Feather Hat
Actress Elizabeth Firth (as Natalie, wife of Popoff) in Lehars operetta, " The Merry Widow", wearing a hat or headdress composed mostly of feathers. Date: 1907

Racial / New Guinea 3 Men
Men of New Guinea Date: circa 1870

Woman wearing feather boa and muff 1907
Edwardian woman wearing a bronze shade feather boa and muff. Date: 1907

Beardsley Woman Reading
A Beardsley woman reading... Date: 1895

Summer frocks 1907
Two women wearing charming summer frocks, (left) white muslin with black spots, valenciennes lace and narrow rouleaux of pale blue silk

Tatler cover - Lady Louis Mountbatten by Yevonde
Lady Louis Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Vicerine of India (1901 - 1960), formerly Edwina Ashley. Wife of Lord Louis Mountbatten. Date: 1938

Victorian Scrap - Pantomime Girl saluting. late 19th century

Frontispiece, Legends of Origins -- The Knight of the Swan. Date: published circa 1870s

Advert for Woollands of Knightsbridge womens hats 1937
Two models wearing smart straw hats tilted slightly to the one side. Date: 1937

Scottish Peacock Hat
Flora A Scottish girl with a peacock feather in her hat Date: circa 1840

Beret with Peacock Plume
Flora A Scottish girl with a peacock feather in her beret. Date: circa 1840

Western Canada - Blackfoot Indian Chiefs Date: 1928

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