Head Dress Collection (page 6)

1860 Costume / Women & Boy
Boy: forage cap, knickerbocker suit with side buttoning tunic. Women: dress with single flounce, Swiss belt & unusual headdress; grey & blue, double-breasted coat

Mantles / Pardessus 1862
Red mantle with pagoda sleeves, lattice & ribbon headdress. Black mantle with pagoda sleeves & pockets trimmed with tassels, green dress & lace bonnet & plume

Fashions for April 1851
Evening corsages including a lace bertha & bows (echelles); fringed green pardessus; black lace edged mantle with collar; purple morning dress: jacket corsage with tabbed basque

Pocahontas / Macdonald
POCAHONTAS alias MATOAKA American Indian princess, daughter of Powhatan, wife of John Rolfe, seen here in native costume

Central Africans
Left, a man and woman of Timbuktu : on their right, two people of the Tibbo people

Egyptian Hats
Egyptian mens fashions permit a variety of headdress, most of them variations on the turban

Cetewayo / Zulu / Iln 1879
CETEWAYO or CETSHWAYO Zulu king (1873-79) in 1877, the year he began to oppose the British annexation of the Transvaal

Ataaw Wallpa / Atahualpa
ATAW WALLPA INKA (known as ATAHUALPA) Last Inca Emperor of Peru arrested by Pizarro in 1532

Warrior of the Congo
A warrior of the Congo (approximately todays Zaire) armed with bow and quiver : his feet are bare but his head is adorned with an extravagant feathered headdress

Edith Sitwell / Recording
EDITH SITWELL Writer, reading from her Rustic Elegies, being filmed while her voice is recorded in synch, in 1927

Pearl Trimmed Headdress
Platinum, fifties blonde wearing a pearl trimmed headdress with a veil & triple pearl drop earrings. Her theatrical style eye make-up lends an exotic appearance

Aristocratic Dress 1694
Fontange headdress, petticoats are lavishly & horizontally trimmed, the over-skirt of the gown caught up to reveal it. One gown is partially of ermine

Palace Minos King Stucco
Interior of the Palace : A painted stucco relief allegedly of King Minos

Cockling, Lancashire
Cockling on the beach, Lancashire

Dinner Dress 1911
Empire line revival gown: square corsage & an asymmetrical tunic / over- skirt with a deep side split & train trimmed with ropes of amethysts

Belle Assemblee 1852
A wedding gown with lace on the bodice and cuffs. A headdress of white roses frame her modest face. Attached is a long, almost floor length, veil

Klimt Dress Circa 1914
Artistic & exotic looking Klimt inspired dress with a translucent upper bodice, embroidered split tunic with train & fringed tango skirt worn with a feather headdress

Evening Gown 1823 / Candle
A bewitching young lady in white holds a candle to illuminate her path. The hemline is wadded & decorated with 2 rows of lace. Her headdress is gold & red

Frenchwoman 1547
Woman of the reign of Henri II -her long black gown, cape and head=dress suggest that this is a mourning outfit

Mariette / Auguste / Ils 61
AUGUSTE-FERDINAND-FRANCOIS MARIETTE French archaeologist. Controlled archaeological excavations in Egypt

Female Type / Exotic 1914
Woman in a theatrical pose, wearing an exotic dress and feathered headdress

Bonnets and Hats 1868
Winter Bonnets and Hats

Duchesse D orleans / Frois
Accused of practising magic against her brother-in-law, the imbecile king Charles VI le Fou, the duchesse d Orleans has to leave Paris for Asnieres

Preparing a Swedish bride for her wedding, at Bleckinge, in southern Sweden

Eliz York / Players / 20 / 50
Elizabeth of York Queen to Henry VII

Costume / Men / Mexican 14C
A Mexican Indian warrior chief in feathered headdress and tasselled orange tunic

Costume / Women / 1556
An aristocratic lady of the Royal Court, in a green dress with large white ruff, and carrying a book

Costume / 1490 Bourgeoisie
A late 15th century middle- class couple: well fed and well dressed (if a little drab); he wears pointed-toed shoes

Hester Thrale / Hopwood
HESTER THRALE Friend of Dr Samuel Johnson, and wife of the brewer, Henry Thrale; she later married her Italian singing teacher and became Mrs Piozzi

Syntax / Inspecting Bank
Doctor Syntax inspecting the bank

Lascelles / Mary / 1922
PRINCESS MARY VISCOUNTESS LASCELLES soon after her marriage to Viscount Lascelles

Philippa Hainault / Anon E
PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT Wife of Edward III, King of England, daughter of William, Count of Holland

Hester L Stanhope / Spiess
LADY HESTER LUCY STANHOPE Traveller to Asia, where she settled and adopted eastern manners

COURTIERS, 1708
A handsome young couple from the court of Louis XIV - he with sword and large hat, she with a fan and a possibly a fontagne headdress

Jp Kemble / Colour Cutout
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE Popular actor and theatre manager, seen here in Roman costume

Steeple Headdress
A fanciful Victorian depiction of a mediaeval lady wearing a Hennin or steeple headdress of the late C15th. Other aspects of her costume date from the 14th century

Racial / Africans C1830
Two richly dressed Africans

Mohican Man 1830
Mohican (Mohegan) man with a feathered headdress

Evening Dress 1824
Pale yellow gown with short, puffed sleeves. The hem is decorated with 2 rouleaux infilled with puffings & oval shaped designs, topped with paisley pattern trim

Mme. Schliemann & Jewels
MADAME SCHLIEMANN wife of archeologist Heinrich Schliemann, wearing ornaments found at Mycenae and supposed by her husband to be the property of Helen of Troy

Mary Tudor / Miniature
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England

Bird Dance / Japan / 1862
An elegant dancer performing the Bird Dance in a elaborate costume and headdress

Mary Tudor / Oval Eng
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England

Mary Tudor / Ryall
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England

Mary Tudor / Hall
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England as Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII

Mary Tudor / Felipe II
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England, with her husband Philip II of Spain

Mary Tudor / Chapman
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England

Mary Tudor / Kilian
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England, with a scene from her coronation

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