Graceful Collection (page 2)

Advert for Jays courts gowns 1933
Limited amount of courts gowns, available from Jays. Showing a model wearing a beautiful slimline gown with white long gloves, train, feathers and tiara. 1933

Majesties Courts gown 1933
Elegant model wearing a streamlined court gown for presentation at their Majesties court in 1933 by M.E Brooke. Wearing long veil, white long gloves, train and a spray of flowers. Date: 1933

Sunset over Falmouth harbour, Cornwall, with boats and swans. Date: circa 1980s

Kazakh national dance, Xinjiang, north west China
A woman performing a Kazakh national dance in Xinjiang (Sinkiang, Chinese Turkestan), north west China, with musicians playing in the background. Date: 1953

Graceful gompholobium, Gompholobium venustum.. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Hood Fitch for Sir William Jackson Hookers Curtiss Botanical Magazine, London

Bystander cover - The Three Graces
Three girls from the 1920s dressed in floaty pastel hued dresses. Date: 1929

Mrs Vernon Castle in Miss 1917
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. The pair were incredibly successful and their earnings were high, with Irene

A fashionable tailor suit, 1914
A fashionable tailor suit of pavement-grey whipcord. The skirt is pleated on a high corselet belt, thereby hanging in graceful folds, The coat is long-waisted, the basque full

Ballerina by H. L. Oakley
Silhouette of a young ballet dancer in profile. The silhouette can be seen on display in Oakley Llandudno studio in 1929 in image number 10645767. Date: c.1929

Works by Charles Sargeant Jagger, British sculptor
Three works by Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934), British sculptor. At the top: Music, the design which won him the Prix de Rome in 1914. Lower left: Prometheus Bound

Court gown by Isobel 1938
An elegant, streamlined court gown for presentation at their Majesties court in 1938 by Isobel. Note the traditional three feathers in the hair and the ostrich fan

Roshanara (Olive Craddock), Indian dancer
Mlle Roshanara (real name Olive Craddock, 1894-1926), Indian dancer in a graceful pose, with snake-like arms. She learned to dance as a child in India

Morelia spilota, diamond python
Watercolour 40 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Moschus chrysogaster, alpine musk deer
Plate 191 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Plate 99 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
Plate 99 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

Plate 104 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
Plate 104 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

Reptilia (class), snake
Watercolour 57 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Gazella gazella, Arabian gazelle
Arabian Gazelle, antelope arabica. Plate 5 from Symbolae Physicae section: Zoologica I. Mammalia by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Macropus giganteus, eastern gray kangaroo
Marsupial, Kangaroo, or the Pattagorang. Detail from drawing 87, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c

Serpentes (suborder), snake
Watercolour 39 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Naja haje haje, Egyptian cobra
An Egyptian cobra emerging from a ceramic urn and coiling into its characteristic aggressive hissing stance

Ballet Couple

England / Churchill
A picturesque corner in the village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, England, with the tall and graceful tower of All Saints Church. Date: early 1960s

Aesthetic Dancer

Menai Suspension Bridge
Thomas Telfords graceful suspension bridge over the Menai Straits, looking towards the Carnarvonshire mountains, Wales. Date: built 1819 - 1826

Statue entitled Pianissimo by F Peleschka. Date: circa 1927

Zeppelin hovering over a river
A Zeppelin aircraft hovers gracefully over a river, possibly the Rhine

Esmeralda Quadrilles, music cover
Scene from a ballet on a music cover for the Esmeralda Quadrilles by Charles W Glover. A male ballet dancer takes centre stage, with several ballerinas grouped round him

Three portraits of Lina Cavalieri
Three profile portraits of the beautiful Italian opera singer, Mlle Lina Cavalieri

A Minuet
A dance scene showing a minuet. The couple in the foreground take each other by the hand and parade in a circle using short steps known as pas menus

Physical education, girls
A group of barefooted teenage girls learn to be graceful and lady-like during a lesson of musical movement, which involves playing various musical instruments whilst stretching and dancing

Physical education, girls
A group of barefooted teenage girls learn to be graceful and lady-like during a lesson of musical movement, which involves playing various musical instruments whilst stretching and dancing

Britannia and Eve front cover, September 1954
An elegant woman in a navy and white skirt suit, offset by a white hat and gloves, poses elegantly on a table next to a vase of chrysanthemums or marigolds

Leaving the room with finesse
Illustration showing an elegant and slightly haughty woman leaving a room through the door, putting on her hat and grabbing her coat as she sweeps away, casting a glance backwards

Can shorts rival these graceful frocks for the courts?
A fashion illustration underlining the great tennis fashion debate of 1932 - Can shorts rival elegants skirts and dresses on the tennis court

Allies - Gallant Russia
A bearded Russian soldier wearing a heavy greatcoat and shiny boots, converses with a graceful ballerina against the backdrop of his countrys flag

Isabela De Bourbon / Spain
ISABELA DE BOURBON Daughter of HENRI IV, wife of FELIPE IV, King of Spain

Spring Fashions for 1913
Sketch depicting the vivid colour and graceful lines of ladies fashion in the early twentieth century. On left: an evening dress in green

Fishing at Abingdon
A young man stands fishing on the river bank at Abingdon, Berkshire, with its graceful bridge over the river Thames nearby

Frenchwoman 1793
The simple but graceful style favoured by ladies during the Revolutionary period

Dancing Lesson - Maurier
A Victorian teacher instructs seven girls in the art of the dance

Invitation to the Dance
A gentleman of the romantic era invites a lady to dance : she accepts his invitation with a graceful bow

Oehmichen Helicopter
Throughout the world, inventors seek to build a viable helicopter : here French engineer Oehmichen flies his graceful project at Valentignay, Doubs

Lamps by River
A splendid row of graceful lamps outside County Hall, London

Graceful Backhand
A graceful backhand in a Victorian garden

Girl Faints in Street
A girl passes out in the street, but luckily there is a handsome young man at hand to carry her inert but graceful form to a nearby shop

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