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AMERICAN KIDS 1927Two smartly dressed youngsters from an American farming region - he in plus-fours, lounging jacket & tie, she in a simple dress and knee-length socks : good muscles, too. Date: 1927
RELIGION / CONFESSIONPious French Catholics queue to confess their sins to a popular priest; an elegant gentleman reads a pious text on bended knee, a beggar begs Date: 1737
IMAGE OF MARY / BANNERThe image of The Virgin on a banner : miniature from the Chants royaux dAmiens composed for Louise de Savoie by Jan Van Brickenbork Date: 16th century
Harry Lauders Picnic, a popular songHarry Lauders Picnic (Ev ry Laddie Loves a Lassie), a popular song. 20th century
Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - kittens on Daddys knee, tired after dancing. circa 1910s
Ernst Busch - Sea-Star - Lost in thought Date: circa 1920
Arthur Prince ventriloquistArthur Prince (1881 1946), music hall entertainer and ventriloquist, with his puppeteered dummy Sailor Jim, seated upon his knee. Date: 1905
Fred Russell ventriloquistFred Russell (1862 1957) Irish ventriloquist, with his puppeteered dummy Coster Joe, seated upon his knee. Date: 1905
Cartoon, Enigma, WW1Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916
A portly lady is laced into her corset by her maid Date: 1921
Cartoon, Laugh It Off AnnualCartoon in the Laugh It Off Annual -- Demobbed! and glad to be back on the old job, sir! An employee returned from the war sits in his office with a young woman on each knee
When Women Vote A Proposal. When Women Vote, they will propose to the men. Lady down on one knee asks, Percy Darling, will you marry me? Man replies coyly, Really, you had better ask Mamma Miss
Advert for Gor-ray Koneray pleated skirts 1950Give her a lovely NEW Gor-ray pleated skirt. With its permanised knife-edge into sheath-fitting, single material over the hips, it is the most flattering of all skirts. 1950
Cornish Grandmother repairs her Grandsons ClothingNo more Flora for you my Son!. A Cornish Grandmother takes her Grandson over her knee to repair his torn shorts, the result of too much enthusiastic running through the undergrowth
Duchess of Albany with Charles EdwardPrincess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany with her son, Prince Charles Edward of Albany (1884-1954). Charlie was born posthumously
Queen Victoria with her Wales great-grandchildrenQueen Victoria with three of her Wales great-grandchildren. Standing at the back is Prince Edward of Wales ( David, later King Edward VIII), with Prince George of Wales ( Bertie)
Girl with DogA little girl in a fashionable lime green cloak and hat takes her little black dog for a walk
Susi - with a toddler. 1950s
Bransby Williams in David Copperfield by Walter F. EvelynDavid Copperfield by Walter Frederick Evelyn from the novel by Charles Dickens (1849-50). First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, on 6th April 1923
Advert for Goochs winter clothing 1915Winter double breasted tweed coats for little boys. 1926
The Gamekeeper and his wife (and their pet black spaniel)The Gamekeeper (his shotgun resting on his knee) and his wife (and their pet black spaniel) relaxing in their garden. Date: circa 1908
Advert for Gorringes childrens winter overcoats 1926Knee length winter overcoats for little boys. 1926
Man Beaten up by a SuffragetteMan in tattered suit, bandaged and bloodied with an arm and knee in a sling, rues the day he had an argument with a suffragette. Note the perpetrators umbrella stuck in his arm. Date: circa 1913
Say It With Cigars by H M Bateman. This illustration is a play on the gentleman offering chocolates to the lady. In this case the woman is on her knee offering cigars to the man
The end of loveThe Honourable John Maler Collier (18501934) - Pre-Raphaelite Painter and one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation
Russo-Japanese War - Father and child - Man with child on knee sitting in front of flight of steps. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905
Nursery Rhymes - Our fatherOur father - woman sitting by by door small child at knee. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s
Snowman and woman on a Christmas postcardSnowman with a woman sitting on his knee on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s
Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - kitten on his kneeLouis Wain, Daddy Cat - kitten daughter on his knee. circa 1910s
Bridegrooms costume from Parkano. Knee breeches. 18th centuKnee breeches belonged to the male flok costume in the 18th century. They were made of chamois, wadmal, broadcloth or linen
Pedro Marcuello offers his Cancionero to Philip the HandsoPedro Marcuello offers his Cancionero to Philip I of Castile (1478-1506), known as Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile (1479-1555), known as Joan the Mad, in 1502
C17th Dutch CostumeMan: doublet with rosette trim, short cape, breeches with rosettes at the knee, shoes with roses. Woman: decollete gown with a double skirt & petticoat. Date: mid 17th century
Woman in a wide-brimmed hatYoung woman sitting on a hammock, wearing knee length dress red dress, wide-brimmed sun hat with red roses to the side. 1927
Boy Reading BooksA smart boy sits reading books taken from a suitcase. Date: 1940s
Velvet Suited CupidVelvet cavalier costume: breeches with buckles at the knee, waistcoat with pocket flaps, lace fall collar, cuffs & shirt ruffles, socks & shoes with a bar across the instep. Date: circa 1913
Green Dress 1899Dark green princess style dress trimmed in white with shoulder puffs, wrap over bodice & gored skirt tight over the hips & flaring from below the knee. Date: 1899
Brown Tailor Made 1899Brown tailor-made with open jacket bodice secured with crossed bands & buttons, tight sleeves with flared cuff, tight skirt flaring from the knee & swansdown ruff. Date: 1899
Skirt & Blouse 1828Ruff, kerchief, ribbon adorned bonnet, blouse with full sleeves contained at the upper arm by a band, a canezou, skirt trimmed at waist & at knee level with lilac & foliage. 1828
Autumn Dress 1899Grey & black dress: open bodice, embroidered revers with short cape, gored skirt with pleated panels contained to the knee with cords & buttons & flaring out below. 1899
Robert 9th Earl KinnoullRobert Auriol Hay-Drummond, ninth earl of KINNOULL aristocrat, depicted in all his glory - knee-breeches, cape, insignia, sword, coronets, staff, medallions Date: 1751 - 1804
5th Earl SpencerJOHN POYNTZ SPENCER 5TH EARL SPENCER (1835 - 1910), Politician, working on his papers Date: 1885
Englishman of 1685The body-coat has now become the universal fashion, as have the wide knee-breeches : wigs are universally worn by men with any pretensions to being in the swim Date: circa 1685
Proposal 1799Oh! Listen to the voice of love A suitor, on bended knee, speaks of undying love to his red haired lady friend. Date: 1799
Louis Ix / Mothers KneeLouis IX is instructed by his mother, Blanche de Castille; consequently he becomes a saint and a crusader Date: 1215-1270
Charles Frederick GillSIR CHARLES FREDERICK GILL Irish lawyer Date: 1851 - 1923
Mama & Child / Knight / 1840A mother sits with her two children on her knee - the elder daughter fondly kisses her younger sister Date: circa 1840
Mama & 2 Sleeping KidsA mother sits with her two daughters on her knee - one of them sleeps soundly Date: circa 1840
Mother & Daughter / SaddA glamarous mother with her daughter sitting on her knee Date: circa 1840