Gown Collection (#31)

COSTUME 1774-1780
French costumes of the later 1770s include the examples of the high, elaborate hairstyles then worn, also the polonaise gown & pelerines. One lady wears a calash (folding hood). Date: 1774 - 1780

Henry VI at Devotions
Wearing a richly embroidered ermine-lined gown, but laying aside his crown, he kneels at his devotions. Date: 1421 - 1471

Cecilia Lady Stapleton
CECILIA, LADY BRYAN STAPLETON daughter of William, Lord Bardolf, and wife of Sir Bryan Stapleton. She wears a long gown, with a mantle : her head dress is covered with a veil. Date: ? - 1432

LADY OF 1420
A lady of the reign of Henry V sits on the bank of a stream, strumming her dulcimer. She wears a fashionable crescent head=dress and a long gown. Date: 1420

Modes for 1809
Man: coat cut-away at the front with an M -cut collar & split cuffs, pantaloons with decorative braid, hessian boots. Woman: gown with vandyked & embroidered hem. Date: 1809

Rayon Ballgown
Love-in-a-mist coloured rayon gown with a long skirt, & heart (en coeur) shaped pleated corsage with narrow shoulder straps & worn with a triple belt trimmed with roses Date: 1938

1st Earl of Westmorland
Ralph Neville, first earl of WESTMORLAND, with his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. He is wearing his battle dress, she a fine gown. Date: 1364 - 1425

Costume / Italian Students
Two Italian students from Padova wearing breeches known as Venetians with matching doublets, small ruffs & tall crowned hats. N.B fur-lined gown with hanging sleeves. Date: 1583

Oxford Uni Student 1950S
An aesthetic-looking male student in the street. Date: 1950s

Red & White Costume 1818
White woollen gown / pelisse with a broad red, velvet band at hem & cuffs & military style Brandenbourg cord trim on the bodice. A large red & white bonnet completes the outfit. Date: 1818

Racial / German Magistrate
A magistrate (left) and a knight (right) 16th century

French Costumes 1475
Two elegant nobles - he with slashed sleeves, long plumed cap, and a dagger at his crutch, she in gown with ornate under skirt Date: circa 1475

Avelina / Lancaster / Hill
AVELINA COUNTESS OF LANCASTER Wife of Edmund Crouchback (Founder and Earl of Lancaster) Date: - 1269?

Female in Bath C1910
A pretty young woman steps into her bath. Date: circa 1910

COSTUME 1475
Male & female costume of the late 15th century - he wears a purse & dagger at his waist & holds a bird of prey, she wears a blue gown with gold belt. Date: circa 1475

Man Makes Tea for Two
A man wearing a dressing gown pours water into a china teapot as he prepares morning tea for two. Date: 1930s

John Lawrence Toole / P&p
JOHN LAWRENCE TOOLE English actor-manager, in the role of The Don Date: 1830 - 1906

Denis Diderot / Gown
DENIS DIDEROT French encyclopaedist and philosopher, lamenting the loss of his nightgown Date: 1713 - 1784

Burgundian Costume 1450
As la duchesse de Bourgogne kneels in prayer, her rosary round her wrist, her page holds up her gown and a lady of her court clutches her own dress Date: circa 1450

Anglo-Saxon Lady
An Anglo-Saxon lady of rank in full dress, wearing a double veil and perforated mantle, embroidered gown over her undergarment. Behind her is a hammock-like carriage. Date: 850

Costume Miniature C. 1800
A young, unknown blonde woman in a simple, white muslin gown, red shawl and straw bonnet sits in a landscape setting holding a basket. Date: circa 1800

Miss Lascelles Costume
Miss Annie Lascelles, singer, wears a gown with a skirt comprised of 3 flounces that appear to be decorated with beads. The bodice is trimmed with rows of lace & fringing Date: 1850s

Supper time at a high society dance. Date: 1872

Holmes & Hatherley
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEERs THUMB Holmes pours the engineer Hatherley a brandy-and-water. Date: First published: 1892

The Dolly Sisters modelling smart evening gowns of black tulle and jet with satin bodice, USA, circa 1915 circa 1915

Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1935
Front cover illustration featuring a beautiful dark-haired 1930s woman with huge hazel eyes, wearing a light blue evening gown and clutching a pair of binoculars

Britannia and Eve magazine, May 1931
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman seated on a couch, distracted from reading a letter by her pet cat who seems to be scratching at her beautiful raspberry-coloured gown

Two young ladies converse
Girls attire: the newest and best. Two well-dressed young ladies conversing over a book. One wears a yoked cambric gown and the other the new lace collar

Britannia and Eve magazine, March 1939
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman wearing an elegant low-back evening gown, her beautiful blonde locks curled away from her face

Marriage of Princess Sibylle and Prince Gustav Adolf of Swed
Princess Sibylle of Saxe Coburg Gotha, pictured entering the church in Coburg upon her marriage to Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden in 1932

Paris Fashions for September 1859
From left, a highed necked walking dress with one deep flounce at the bottom of the skirt edged with narrow velvet, and five small plaited flounces above also edged with narrow velvet

Joan Crawford (1905 - 1977), born Lucille le Seuer, American film, theatre and television actress

In Summer Mood
Gorgeous illustration depicting a woman with long auburn hair wearing rational dress reminiscent of a medieval flowing gown. She walks through a garden filled with foxgloves in bloom

Sleepyhead by Muriel Dawson
A little blonde girl, yawning and rubbing her eyes, wanders up to bed in her dressing gown, laden with soft toys

Two Little Sleepyheads by Muriel Dawson
Two children make their way to bed wearing dressing gowns and with their arms around each other

Couple in pyjamas sitting on a stone step in the sun
A couple in pyjamas and dressing gowns sitting on a stone step in the bright sunshine

Woman and patients at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a woman in overalls discussing a game of chess with three patients in a hospital ward

Patients in cafeteria, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing five patients in the cafeteria enjoying a hot meal served by a catering lady

Patients relaxing at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing patients relaxing with visitors in a rest room. One patient has his leg in plaster, and is watching television

Patient playing darts, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a patient in dressing gown and pyjamas playing darts in a rest room

Nurse and patients at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a nurse with two patients in a rest room

Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton (1817 - 1907). An English judge. "

Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (Temps)
Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (or Temps), meaning Waltz in Two Beats or Two-Step Waltz, a popular style of waltz in the mid-19th century

Surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Three surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall

Bath Preparations, 1957
A woman wearing a rather flammable looking nightdress and dressing gown prepares to anoint her bath with Joli Madame perfume by Pierre Balmain

Mrs Gerald Legge
Tatler front cover showing the Honourable Mrs Gerald Legge in a sumptuous red gown with white pom-poms. Raine McCorquodale, the daughter of Barbara Cartland and stepmother to Diana

The Parisians of Paris: La Belle Otero
Carolina Otero, the famous Spanish dancer, actress and courtesan

Mlle Sorel
The French actress Mlle Cecile Sorel at the Odeon National Theatre

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