Jun17 Collection

Andrews Liver Salt poster by John Hassall
I must have left it behind. A bemused gent scratches his head as he searches his suitcase for his precious tin of Andrews Liver Salt. It is, of course, in his back trouser pocket. Date: c.1920

A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort
A bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935

Dewars advert - The Monarch of the Glen
Advertisement for Dewars whisky, the spirit of the highlands, featuring Edwin Landseers painting The Monarch of the Glen. 1927

Le Miroir des Modes front cover - art deco woman & goldfish
Front cover of French fashion magazine, Le Miroir des Modes featuring a woman in a draped red patterned day dress alongside a glass sphere or bowl of goldfish. Date: c.1920

Wedding of Viscount Althorp and Hon. Frances Roche in Tatler
Page from The Tatler reporting on the wedding of Viscount Althorp (later Earl Spencer) and the Hon. Frances Roche, the parents of Diana, Princess of Wales

The Last Crusade by Bernard Partridge in Punch WW1
The Last Crusade. Coeur-de-Lion (looking down on the Holy City). " My dream comes true." Drawn by Bernard Partridge and published in Punch in December 1917

Lady Mary Cambridge by Madame Yevonde
Lady Mary Whitley (n饠 Lady Mary Ilona Margaret Cambridge; 24 September 1924 13 December 1999), relative of the British Royal Family

Oliver Messel (1904 - 1978), English designer of film sets, costume and interiors. Pictured with his portrait of the Countess of Seafield. Date: 1928

Wrens in the First World War Victory March
Wrens, led by Dame Catherine Furse: a detachment of the Womens Royal Naval Service, taking part in the Victory March on 19th July 1919 in London following the end of World War One

Diana Mitford by Paul Helleu
A portrait of the Hon. Diana Freeman-Mitford, one of the famous six Mitford sisters, drawn by the French artist Paul Helleu during Dianas stay in Paris while at finishing school

Tatler cover - Lady Milbanke (Sheila Chisholm) by Yevonde
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)

Wedding of Raine McCorquodale & Gerald Legge, 1948
Front cover of The Tatler showing Mr and Mrs Gerald Legge receiving their guests at Londonderry House after their wedding at St. Margaret s, Westminster

Sir John Milbanke and Lady Loughborough
Two photograph reporting on the forthcoming marriage of Lady Loughborough (formerly Miss Sheila Chisholm) to Sir John Milbanke on 14 November 1928

Sketch cover - Mrs Gerald D erlanger (Edythe Baker)
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a portrait of Edythe A. Baker (1899 1971), American boogie-woogie pianist, wife of Gerard (" Pop" ) d Erlanger, pictured by society artist, Olive Snell

Group of female factory workers, c. 1910
A group of women factory workers from the Edwardian era wearing clogs. Date: c.1910

Mr Gandhi in England with a travelling spinning-wheel, 1931
Mr Gandhi in England with a travelling spinning-wheel. He arrived in England to attend the Round Table Conference, on 12th September 1931, landing from a cross-channel steamer at Folkestone

Refracting stereoscope, 1852
Diagram of a refracting stereoscope, 1852. Date: 1852

Lascars on British ships: the question of their retention, 1906. Human salamanders: the lascar at work and play. The Illustrated London News says that lascars (sailors from south and southeast Asia)

Tatler cover - Mrs Peter Thorneycroft by Madame Yevonde
Mrs Peter Thorneycroft, formerly Countess Carla Roberti, wife of the President of the Board of Trade pictured posed in front of an over mantel mirror by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1954

Sketch cover - Paula Gellibrand
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a photograph of the Marquise de Casa Maury, formerly miss Paula Gellibrand. Captured in a metallic dress looking through decorative wrought-metal gates by

Wax celebrities in Paris shop windows
Celebrities of 1928 cast as wax mannequins in Paris shop windows. From top left clockwise, tennis stars Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills, Josephine Baker, Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan

Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (Lady Alington)
Lady Alington, formerly Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936), eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury. She married Lord Alington in 1928 and had one daughter born the following year

Fancy Dress for Winter sports holiday carnival - radish
Suggestions for a fancy dress costume appropriate for a carnival as part of a winter sports holiday programme. Available from Dickins and Jones. Date: 1928

Barbara Cartland in the Orkneys
Page from The Sketch magazine carrying photographs of novelist and socialite, Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (1901-2000), married name Mrs Barbara McCorquodale, pictured at Swanbistre

Girls building at the Wigman School
Page from The Sketch reporting on the novel sight of girl pupils at the Mary Wigman School in Berlin working as assistants to the workmen engaged on building a new school-house

New hats for the Wrens, 1942
New hats for the Wrens: a petty officer (centre) and two leading W.R.N.S. photographed wearing the new hats to be issued to the womens branch of the Senior Service. Date: 1942

Little boy with scooter, c. 1900
A small boy poses for his photograph with an early scooter. Date: c.1900

John Hassall Correspondence Art School in St. Albans
The very picturesque John Hassall Correspondence Art School, a successful venture by one of the leading illustrators and poster artists of the day

John Hassall Correspondence Art School - the Poster Course
A man up a ladder posts a poster; illustration accompanying a section in the John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochure explaining about its poster course

John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochure
Front cover of a brochure for The John Hassall Correspondence Art School. Hassall was a leading illustrator and poster artist who established an art school in Kensington in the 1900s

The Aesthete by H. M. Bateman
A very modern woman residing in a minimally and fashionably furnished flat gets very excited by one small cactus on her windowsill. Date: 1935

The Probationer who Disagreed with the Matron, H. M. Bateman
A hospital matron goes puce and faints with shock at a rookie nurse who has dared to contradict her over the diagnosis of a patient. Date: 1934

After Forty Years by H. M. Bateman
After forty years of marriage, its clear who wears the trousers in this marriage. A satire on new fashions and matrimony by cartoonist H. M. Bateman. Date: 1934

Mrs Quintin Gilbey and her Cairn by Madame Yevonde
Rosemary Hope-Vere, at the time Mrs Quintin Gilbey. She was previously married and Mrs Drury-Lowe and was married a third time to Sir Roderick Brinckman. Pictured with her Cairn terrier named Looney

Garden swing, 1954
A glorious spring suspension garden lounge with adjustable back and three independent leg rests available from Barkers of Kensington in 1954

The Embroidery Frame by Bertha Newcombe
A young Victorian woman using an embroidery frame, a sewing box next to her and an example of her work, in the form of a sampler, seen on the wall behind her. Date: 1905

Sir Edward Poynter
Sir Edward John Poynter (1836 - 1919), English painter of historical subjects, President of the Royal Academy and Director of the National Gallery (1894-1904)

Fancy dress - young woman dressed as carnival
A young women, by the name of Sadie according to the postcard, is dressed as Carnival with a fancy dress featuring rosettes, a mask and hat. Date: 1918

Fancy dress - young woman dressed as a flower
A young woman in fancy dress costume - perhaps as a flower of the chrysanthemum or gerba daisy variety. Date: c.1900

The Clairvoyante who Foretold her own Marriage by H M Batema
A sequential cartoon by H.M. Bateman showing a woman studying cards to tell her own future. Believing they re predicting she ll meet the man she ll marry imminently

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