Gertrude Collection

GERTRUDE BELL 1868-1926
GERTRUDE M L BELL English traveller, archaeologist and government official

Gertrude Bell aged 26
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) aged 26 in 1894. Date: 1894

The Fountain, Wilton, Wiltshire - Inauguration ceremony. The large circular water trough and fountain sit beside the A30, now just inside the River Wylye recreation field

Advert / Lawrence / Squire
Personality endorsement of Whitbreads India Pale Ale: Gertrude Lawrence and Ronald Squire

Advert for Whitbread Pale Ale
WHITBREADs PALE ALE featuring Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jnr at Grosvenor House

Gertrude Lawrence / Sketch
Gertrude Lawrence, actress

Bell Picnics in Iraq
GERTRUDE M L BELL English traveller picnicking with King Faisal of Iraq, (seated, second right) in 1922

Gertrude Stein
GERTRUDE STEIN American writer

MATA HARI/WALERY PARIS
Mata Hari (1876 - 1917), (Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) Dutch-born exotic dancer, became a German spy in 1916, then a double agent for the French; she was executed

Gertrude Hermes - Sculptor, Designer, Engraver
Gertrude Hermes (1901-1983) - Sculptor, Designer, Engraver 1940

Auda abu Tayi, Sheikh of the Howaitat - Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell: The Uncrowned Queen of Mesopotamia
Miss Gertrude Bell pictured in the Illustrated London News - described as a Staff Political Officer in Mesopotamia (Iraq) on the eve of the Cairo Conference to discuss the future of Mesopotamia

Gertrude Lawrence in Molyneux
A pale green and russet brown evening ensemble by Edward Molyneux, designed for Gertrude Lawrence to wear in the play, Behold we Live at the St. Jamess Theatre in 1932. Date: 1932

Gertrude Bell on Horseback - Baghdad, Iraq

Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Yorkshire
Rounton Grange was designed in 1870 for Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell and his wife by the leading Arts&Crafts architect Philip Webb. Sadly demolished in 1953

The Cairo Conference
The Conference at Cairo to discuss Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 1921 attended by Winston Churchill, King Faisal of Iraq, Sir Percy Cox, Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Lawrence by Autori
Stylised caricature of Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952), British actress and musical comedy performer at the time she was appearing in Private Lives by Noel Coward at the Phoenix Theatre in London

Gertrude Lawrence by Garretto
Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952), actress and singer, portrayed in highly stylised caricature by Garretto at the time she was playing the lead role in Noel Cowards " Private Lives"

Humber saloon advert - Molyneux - Gertrude Lawrence
Advertisement for the Humber Vogue Saloon

Gravetye Manor - West Hoathly, Sussex
Gravetye Manor - home of William Robinson (friend of Gertrude Jekyll) West Hoathly, Sussex. Date: 2017

A new dance - the Truda-Trott, 1927
Photographs demonstrating a new dance trend in 1927, the Truda-Trott devised in Austria as a compliment to the female Channel swimmer, Gertrude Ederle

Gertrude Bells Aeroplane & Arrival

Costume design by Gertrude A. Johnson for showgirl in blue gown, New York, 1920s Date: 1920s

Gertrude Fitzpatrick 2
Lady GERTRUDE FITZPATRICK daughter of the second earl of Upper Ossory, but even with her posh name and her handsome looks, she chose never to wed. Date: CIRCA 1781 - 1841

Gertrude Fitzpatrick
Lady GERTRUDE FITZPATRICK daughter of the second earl of Upper Ossory, but even with her posh name and her handsome looks, she chose never to wed. Date: CIRCA 1781 - 1841

The first authentic stage Tess
Photographs of the first production of Thomas Hardys own dramatic version of his novel Tess of the d Urbervilles on 26th November 1924 by the Hardy Players at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester

Landscape painting by Gertrude Jekyll
The Pilgrim's Yews, Merrow Downs - Landscape painting by Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), influential British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer. Date: 1890

Hansel And Gretel
A colourful illustration depicting the German fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel

The Bird of Paradise and Colonel Witwou'd, - actress and courtesan Gertrude Mahon (nee Tilson) and George Bodens, Gentleman Usher to the King Date: 1781

Bust, Head Of Spanish Peasant
A portrait sculpture of a Spanish peasant man wearing a simple bandana. Date: circa 1921

Mrs. Fred Taylor
A portrait oil painting of a woman wearing a dark blue velvet gown, jade coloured necklace and a large, blue diamond shaped brooch. Date: circa 1918

Actors and Actresses
Edwardian actors and actresses. Mr. Bernard Shaw and Miss Lillah McCarthy. Mr. Fred Terry's Daughter. Mr. Arthur Bourchier. Miss Iris Hoey. Miss Ellen Terry. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Gertrude Hoffmann, dancer as Zobeide in ??Scheherazade
Miss Gertrude Hoffmann, dancer and choreographer (1883-1966), as Zobeide in ??Scheherazade, theatrical portrait in costume and jewellery

Gertrude Lawrence
British actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952). Around this time she was appearing in revue shows in London and New York. Date: circa 1925

Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), actress on holiday, Switzerland. Captioned, Home and Away: The One-and-Only Gertrude Lawrence Takes a Swiss Holiday'

Victorian Death Bereavement Mourning White Black
victorian, death, bereavement, mourning, white, black, 1850s, embossed, card, religion, religious, belief, faith, tree, trees, cemetery, urn, urns, funerary, rectangle, rectangular, woman, women

Embossed Victorian mourning card, three daughters
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a grieving woman, an urn above and a church on the right

Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence in the play Has Anybody Seen our Ship?, part of the programme To-night at 8.30, at the Phoenix Theatre, 1936. Date: 19/02/1936

Photograph showing Noel Coward (1899-1973) and Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952) starring in Coward's repertory Tonight at Seven Thirty, which included the piece Shadow Play, Manchester, 1935

Gertrude Lester
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Gertrude Lester as the widowed Sonia Date: 1908

A scene with the 18 Gertrude Hoffman girls from Artists and Models Paris Edition at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York (1925) Date: 1925

A scene from Rose Marie at the Drury Lane Theatre, London (1925) Date: 1925

Gertrude Chandler in Box B Date: 1890s

Comic postcard, Couple chatting by a country gate - cut out the rude stuff Date: 20th century

Private Lives, fashion on stage, Gertrude Lawrence
Article by Florence Roberts in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reporting on the fashions on stage (and in the stalls) during Noel Cowards play, Private Lives at the Phoenix Theatre

Gertrude Anne of Hohenberg, queen of King Rudolf
Gertrude Anne of Hohenberg, 1225-1281, queen of King Rudolf I of Germany, and her son Charles, d.1276. Kaiserin Anna Gertraud, Karl. From her tomb in Basel Minster

Costumes of the 13th century. A prince and two knights swearing allegiance to a king, the investiture of a knight, a wedding ceremony, and a king with crown over chainmail armour

Hoffman Girls at the London Hippodrome
The Gertrude Hoffman Girls in the British Empire Exhibition scene in Leap Year, the 1924 revue at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1924

The Hoffman Girls performing webbing act, London Hippodrome
The eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls performing their extraordinary acrobatic webbing act at the London Hippodrome, Leap Year, in 1924. Date: 1924

The Hoffman Girls in rehearsals
The Hoffman Girls, the dance troupe founded, managed and choreographed by Gertrude Hoffman

Audience of stars at midnight performance of Charlots Revue
A galaxy of stars in the audience for the midnight performance of the first night of Charlots Revue at the Prince of Wales Theatre in April 1925

A portrait of Gertrude Lawrence, London, 1920
A portrait of Gertrude Lawrence the leader of the cabaret Frolics given nightly at Murrays Club, London, 1920 Date: 1920

Gertrude Lawrence at La Caponcina on French Riviera
Front cover of The Bystander featuring British actress Gertrude Lawrence pictured holidaying at the Villa Caponcina on the French Riviera, the home of the fashion design Captain Edward Molyneux

Beatrice Lillie and Gertrude Lawrence in a Revue
Beatrice Lillie and Gertrude Lawrence in Andre Charlots Revue of 1924. 1924

Actress Miss Gertrude Elliott (1874-1950), later wife of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson in the role of housemaid Peggy in Mice and Men. Date: 1902

The Light That Failed - Actress Miss Gertrude Elliott
The Light That Failed a play version of the novel by Rudyard Kipling (written by George Fleming) - Actress Miss Gertrude Elliott (1874-1950)

Gertrude Callam, as Rosina
Gertrude Callam, soprano, as Rosina in The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini Date: March 1927

SAINT GERTRUDE AND NUN
GERTRUDE DE NIVELLES A nun kneels before her, knowing that this will make her more perfect and more holy. Date: 626 - 659

Gertrude Bell in Iraq
Gertrude Bell, English traveller, picnicking with King Faisal of Iraq (seated, second right) in 1922. Date: 1922

The Tomb of Gertrude Jekyll by Lutyens with her fork
A close-up The tomb of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) designed by Edwin Lutyens in the Churchyard of St John the Baptist Church at Busbridge near Godalming, Surrey

Certificate presented by The Overseas Club - Empire Day 1916
WW1 - Home Front - Certificate presented by The Overseas Club (now ROSL, the Royal Over-seas League) on Empire Day 1916 to Gertrude Knight

Christmas cheque from the Santa Claus Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, sending ten thousand kind greetings from N A Aplin to Miss Gerty Doggett. Date: 1891

Ramadi - the Standard of the Dulaim

Group containing King Faisal I and Fahad Beg

Gertrude Bell with Haji Naji in his garden
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) with Haji Naji (Iraqi farmer and friend of Bell s) in his garden

Judi Dench as Ophelia and Coral Browne as Gertrude
Dame Judi Denchs professional stage debut as Ophelia with Coral Browne as Gertrude in Hamlet, produced by the London Old Vic Company. Date: 1957

Suffragettes capture The Monument, London
Crowds gathered to witness the capture of the Monument by two suffragettes, Miss Ethel Spark and Mrs Gertrude Shaw - 18th April, 1913

Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952), (Alexandre Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen) British actress in films and musicals

Autumnal Borders at Munstead Wood (Grade I listed), the home of influential British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)

Gertrude Bell looking out into the desert - Iraq

Gertrude Bell aged 8 with her brother Maurice
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) aged 8 with her brother Maurice in 1876. Date: 1876

Gertrude Bells House in Baghdad, Iraq

In the Tent of the Abu Tayi
In the Tent of the Auda abu Tayi, Sheikh of the Howaitat - Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bells map of her journey to Hayil

Gertrude Bell with her Father, Sir Hugh Bell
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) with her Father, Sir Hugh Bell (1844-1931). Date: circa 1875

Mrs Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 April 18, 1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City

Gertrude Moran, American tennis player known as Gorgeous Gussie by Wimbledon fans, due in part to the frilly pants designed by Teddy Tinling she wore in 1949

Great Arab Rulers visit the British Residence at Basra
Ibn Saud, Sir Percy Cox, Miss Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Jekylls Garden fork and lawn shears placed on an old mill grindstone at Munstead Wood (Grade I listed), the home of influential British horticulturist, garden designer

Front cover of London Life featuring Gertrude Olmstead, 1925
Front cover of London Life featuring film star Gertrude Olmstead, 1925 Date: 1925

Clothes and the Woman by George Paston. The reverse of a four page flyer which also includes the production of Me and My Diary by Gertrude Jennings

The Edge O Beyond by Roy Horniman and Ruby Miller
The Edge O Beyond by Roy Horniman (18721930) and Ruby Miller (14 July 1889 - 2 April 1976), from the novel by Gertrude Page (1872 - 1922) written in 1908

Miss Gertrude Elliott - American actress
Miss Gertrude Elliott (1874-1950) - American Edwardian Stage Actress - known in the USA as Gertrude Dermott Date: 1903

Girls Friendly Society (GFS) Lodge, Ealing, Middlesex
Residents in the garden of the GFS Lodge at Ealing, Middlesex / West London. A croquet set can be seen. The seated women in the hat is Gertrude Marye Barnard, founder of the Ealing branch. Date: 1913

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