Lorgnette Collection

British Actress Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE (1892-1972) - British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christies character Miss Marple

Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal Family
Advertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841

Passion Week at the Play, by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Date: 1862

Dandy with lorgnette, era of Marie Antoinette
Dandy in black suit, breeches and stockings, holding a sprig of flowers and looking through a pocket telescope or lorgnette. Era of Marie Antoinette. Handcolored engraving by Ap

Woman in chapeau and redingote, era of Marie Antoinette
Fashionable woman in flowery chapeau and veil, wearing a fichu and green velvet redingote over a grey silk dress and holding a cane. Era of Marie Antoinette. Handcolored engraving by A

Woman in evening dress of blue silk. Robe du soir en soie bleu de lune pailletee. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Adrien Etienne Drian from Tommaso Antonginis Journal

Fortune Teller and two Ballet Dancers. circa 1900

Advert for Parkins & Gotto 1895
Selection of novelty Christmas presents. 1895

LE PARTIE DE WISCH
A well-to-do group of French ladies and gentlemen in fine clothes play a game of whist Date: 18th century

Female Dress of 1896
Women dressed elegantly in gowns with lace trim or matching velvet jackets help a child taking a drink

Victorian scrap - The Duchess
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - The Duchess. late 19th century

The Nose Game - Commercial Nose E6, Denotes Shrewdness. 1927

Happy Families Animals - Mrs Seal. circa 1940s

The Spanish Coquet -- woman holding a fan, with feathers in her hair. circa 1850s

The Evil Eye -- woman looking at someone from behind a fan. circa 1850s

Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Mrs Cowangate the Manufacturers wife. 1928

Frances Lady Ducie
FRANCES lady DUCIE Aristocratic lady depicted toying with a lorgnette suspended round her neck by a necklace. Date: CIRCA 1840

Costume / Townsfolk 1796
A working class woman wears a buffont, a checked apron over a quilted petticoat & skirt draped to create a polonaise. The man wears a bicorne hat & short boots. Date: 1796

Coat & Tartan Dress 1899
Full length coat, the front sloping away revealing a tartan skirt. Tight sleeves, slight puff at the shoulder. Lace jabot, high upright collar, self-coloured trim. Date: 1899

Cartoon, Art in 1916, WW1
Cartoon, Art in 1916. A sitter comments to her artist that his latest portrait doesn t look at all like her. He replies that the war is to blame! Date: 1916

A Dowager during the London Season
Sketch of a dowager, one of the cliched characters of the traditional London Season, perhaps acting as a chaperone and peering through her lorgnette

Columbine and Lelio
Harlequin illustration, showing Columbine standing, with Lelio seated on a chaise longue. Date: 1923

Old soak yokel in smock claiming not to have been drinking
The Squire Daughter - " Jerry, a little bird told me you had to much to drink yesterday!" Jerry - " Wel, my lady

Souvenir of Scarborough - Elderly Widow - looking through her Lorgnette spectacles to little a-veil... Date: circa 1890s

Women floating in the air by the use of parasols with large butterflies attached, and wings on their shoes, gazed at from the ground by men with lorgnettes and telescopes. circa 18th century

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1930
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number featuring a pre-WWI Christmas party with people enjoying a music recital. Date: 1930

Postcard by George Ranstead - Apres la Guerre no. 2
Humorous drawing on a postcard by amateur soldier artist, George Ranstead, who drew a series of illustration suggesting what life might be like after the war

Resort / Casino Dress 1899
Pleated & gauged bodice, lace yoke, skirt tight over the hips & flaring from the knee & trimmed with 3 rows of lace. Straw hat trimmed with flowers & accordian pleated chiffon

Butcher Serves Customer
A woman customer, holding a lorgnette up to her face, points to a plucked chicken that the butcher has picked up

Costume Cape 1898
Two elegant ladies, one wearing a fur-trimmed cape

Two High-Fashion Women
Two women: one seated in lilac lace-trimmed dress, the other in green lace and satin stripes with matching parasol

Elegant Dress of 1896
Elegantly dressed women descend a staircase wearing jackets and gowns with leg-of- mutton sleeves; another woman holds an umbrella against the rain

Old Woman 1860S
An old woman is photographed seated in an upholstered chair. Her clothing is in dark, sombre colours & she wears a lace bonnet & shawl. A lorgnon hangs round her neck

A Card Game / Le Rire
Four smartly-dressed men and women playing a hand of cards after dinner; one of the ladies wears a fur stole, while another watches through a lorgnette

Longchamp Gardens C. 1805
Pink robe with short puffed sleeves; white robe with coloured embroidery, Kashmir shawl & long brown gloves; white robe with wrap-over corsage & epaulettes

Fashion Plate 1905
Costumes with tablier skirts & sleeves that are full on the upper arm. One has a bolero style jacket bodice, the other lace flounces. Hats: tricorn hat with rosette, large flat hat

Man in Green Coat 1813
Green frock coat with velvet collar & unbuttoned cuff, short waistcoat with stand collar, white stock or cravat, Wellington pantaloons, pale grey top hat with green brim

MENs COATS 1828
Grey overcoat with cape & hip pockets. Brown D-B frock coat with gigot sleeves, shirt with stand collar & pointed cuffs, patterned cravat, top hat, cane & strapped pantaloons

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