Legs Collection (page 20)

Richardson / Chamberlin
SAMUEL RICHARDSON English novelist and printer

Stevenson / Father Thomas
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Scottish writers father Thomas Stevenson

Sir James Clark / Hills&s
Sir James Clark Medical

Churchill / Randolph / Fly
British MP Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill as a pesky insect which bites at night, but no-one feels its sting, and which is " all hum"

Charles Buller / 1844 Drg
CHARLES BULLER Statesman, at the age of 38

Acrobats in a Group / 1860
5 acrobats, 3 of them boys, pose with legs crossed, with their ?manager. Their costume consists of decorative shorts & leotards with soft lace-up boots or pumps

Horace Walpole / Harding
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE 4TH EARL OF ORFORD English man of letters at his home, Strawberry Hill

Mytton in Stable
English eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) sits under a horses rump and holds onto her hind legs. The other horses in the stable appear perturbed - but not the humans

Animated Toys for Sale
A man demonstrates his animated toys to some excited children. By pulling a string, their legs jump up and down

Golf Fashions 1927
A golfing couple: the man wears plus-fours with matching socks and jumper; the lady wears a pencil-pleat skirt, striped jumper with large collar and tie and cloche hat

Treating Bow Legs (2)
Bow legs and their treatment with apparatus intended to straighten them

Treating Bow Legs
Apparatus intended to correct bow legs

Trio of Otters 1960S
A trio of otters. Three otters stand on their hind legs in a line

Lady Washes Legs 1905
A German lady in her nightdress washes her feet

Female Type / Sitting 1920
A smiling young Frenchwoman in a white slip sits on a stool and looks directly at the camera

Female Type / Good Legs
Attractive woman dressing, and admiring her own legs

Hyde Park Fashions 1822
A satire on fashion. Amongst the styles mocked are cossack trousers, pinched male waists, high stand-fall collars & large expanses of shirt front & ladies showing their legs

Three Women in a Car
Three women in a car. One driving, one standing adjusting her hat and one sitting with a rug on her legs

Cooking Frogs Silhouette
Frenchmen prepare frogs for the table - and the head chef tastes a mouthful to make sure they re properly done

The Invasion (Plate 1)
The Invasion - France : a satirical view of the feared invasion by Catholic France, depicting incompetent soldiers roasting frogs legs and being led by a sadistic monk

Swimwear / Der Bazar 1869
A selection of two-piece bathing costumes probably composed of a combination with long trouser legs & an over-skirt or tunic

One-Piece Not Allowed
A young woman in a red one- piece bathing costume with lacing on the legs starts to remove the forbidden garment. From a time when the all in one costume seemed fast

Class Photograph / 1920
The children of Wilson House, the 2nd year group of Downhills Central School, Tottenham

Pin-Up in Red Satin
Dangerous looking blonde bombshell wearing a red satin wrap-over evening gown with lethally split skirt, leans back provocatively as she shows fishnet stockinged legs

Putting on Puttees
A gentleman wraps his puttees round his legs, watched by his narrow-waisted wife

LADIES STRIPED P. J S
A young woman sat on a bannister with her legs outstretched wears a pair of short-sleeved pyjamas - a feminine version of the classic mens striped p.j s

Wonderful Horse of 1595
A horse named Morocco or Marocco, exhibited by Banks; it was trained to leap on its hind legs, and count numbers on dice; it was shown in London at the Bell Savage Inn

Perils of Crinolines No3
The High Style (Stile): a woman is thankful that no one is looking as she struggles over a country stile in a cage crinoline, thereby exposing her legs

Bewick / Meerkat
(Suricata suricatta) also named by Bewick the SURICATE or four-toed weasel, famed for its tendency to stand on its hind legs when looking out for enemies

Dipping Sheep, France
Dipping sheep according to Biggs system, at the farm of Prince Napoleon at Meudon - first their legs are tied, then they are dipped, then set loose. Note the sheepdog. Date: circa 1850

Galvani / Frog Exp. - 4
Experiment devised by Luigi Galvani, showing movement of Frog legs due to electrical current

Galvani Frog Exp. 5
Luigi Galvani, professor at Bologna university, observes contractions in a frogs legs when brought into contact with an electrical machine

Sir Henry Rider Haggard
SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD writer of She and other adventure stories

Kamala Walking
MIDNAPORE, INDIA Kamala, five years after living with wolves 1912-1920, sometimes walks on her two legs [photo double-exposed]

Female Type / Raised Skirt
A smiling young Frenchwoman raises the skirt of her slip

Red Devil / 3 Horned
Red Devil with 3 horns, tail and goats legs pours money into the fire

Lilliputian Army / Gullive
The Lilliputian army march between Gullivers legs

Hunting mammoth during the Ice Age
A mammoth rears on its hind legs as it is attacked by an entire community

Thomas Alva Edison / Boy
Thomas Alva Edison as a Boy

Leg Amputation, 16th century
Removing a leg in the 16th century

Camillo Cavour, Italian statesman
Camillo Cavour (1810-1861), Italian statesman

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