Madame Collection (page 5)

Black velvet pyjamas from H. J. Nicholl by Madame Yevonde
A pair of stylish black velvet pyjamas (for evening wear rather than bed!) available from H. J. Nicholl in 1932. Photographed by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1932

Lady Sibell Lygon by Madame Yevonde
Lady Sibell Lygon (1907 - 2005), English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things. Daughter of the 7th Earl Beauchamp, she was the eldest of the four Lygon sisters

Winter Ensembles, 1932 by Madame Yevonde
Two ensembles for winter, photographed by Madame Yevonde. Top is a short fitted coat of novelty woollen material check in black and white with white revers and lined in black

Nina Vanna in a white evening gown by Madame Yevonde
Nina Vanna (Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, 1899-1953) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian-born British film and theatre actress

Lady Broughton by Madame Yevonde
Lady Broughton (1894 - 1968), first wife of Sir Jock Delves Broughton, photographed by Madame Yevonde in 1932. Previously Miss Vera Griffith-Boscawen

Lady Diana Somerset by Madame Yevonde
Lady Diana Maud Nina Somerset (12 September 1898 6 May 1935), married 19 September 1925 Captain Lindsey Shedden (18811971)

London Hippodrome posters revealed after air raid
Posters for the London Hippodrome revealed after a bomb blast stripped away hoardings in October 1940. The poster dates from 1900 and in the centre is one for Miss Mary Arnotis

The actress June by Madame Yevonde
The actress known simply as June at the time she was appearing in the new musical comedy, Toni in Birmingham before moving to the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1924

Miss Essex and Valerie French, Madame Yevonde
Essex and Valerie French, daughters of Major the Hon. and Mrs Gerald French, younger son of Sir John French, Earl of Ypres. 1926

Anne and Christine Bevan by Madame Yevonde
Anne and Christine Bevan, daughters of Mr Edwyn Bevan and the former Mary Waldegrave, photographed by Madame Yevonde at the time Anne was to be married to Charles Craven Saunderson. Date: 1926

Machnow eating breakfast at the London Hippodrome
Feodor Machnow, the Russian giant, pictured next to his manager and (possibly) members of the staff at the London Hippodrome, eating breakfast during his time performing there

Machnow the Giant & Madame Chiquita, London Hippodrome
Machnow the Giant, alleged to be 9 3 " tall (more likely 7 10" ) appearing at the London Hippodrome in 1905 with the diminutive Madame Chiquita who is only 18" high. Date: 1902

Sketch cover - Lady Brownlow by Madame Yevonde
Katherine Kitty Hariet Kinloch, Lady Brownlow (d.1952) photographed by Madame Yevonde She was the daughter of Brig.-Gen. Sir David Alexander Kinloch of Gilmerton

Tatler cover - Eileen Bennett, tennis player, Madame Yevonde
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of British player Eileen Bennett (Mrs Fearnley Whittingstall), who won six Grand Slam titles between 1927 and 1931. 1930

Angela Baddeley and children by Madame Yevonde
Angela Baddeley (1904 - 1976), English stage and television actress, " in private life Mrs Glen Byam Shaw" pictured with her children Jane and George by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1931

Lady Georgiana Curzon & Countess Howe by Yevonde
Mary Howe (nÚÑáCurzon), Countess Howe (1887 - 1962), First wife of 5th Earl Howe pictured right, with her daughter Lady Georgiana Mary Kidston (nÚÑáCurzon, later Lady Starkey) (1910-1976)

MMe, Drake-Exner wearing in a dress of her own design
Madame Drake-Exner, formerly Evelyn Boyriven, Parisian socialite, pictured wearing a simple patterned day dress of her own design, with a severe felt hat and snake belt. Date: 1929

Mrs Marcellus Thomson, daughter of the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, H. E. Colonel George Harvey. Date: 1923

Lady Kathleen Stanley by Madame Yevonde
Lady Kathleen Stanley, formerly Lady Kathleen Thynne, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Bath. She married Lieut.-Colonel, the Hon. Oliver Stanley. Date: 1923

Miss Myrtle Farquarson
Miss Myrtile Farquarson, elder daughter of Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. A. H. Farquarson by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1923

London Hippodrome, Madame Heliot & her lions
Madame Claire Heliot feeding raw beef to her lions (and a couple of dogs), in the arena of the London Hippodrome in 1901 in what The Sphere describes as " a very daring performance"

Elizabeth Cowell by Madame Yevonde
Elizabeth Cowell (1912 - 1998), British broadcaster and the first woman television announcer by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1940

Lady Weymouth by Madame Yevonde
Viscountess Weymouth by Madame Yevonde. She was formerly the Hon. Daphne Winifred Louise Vivian (1904-1997), and married Viscount Weymouth in 1927. Date: 1931

Serge Lifar at the Venice Lido
Serge Lifar of the Russian Ballet, burnished by the sun, adopts a balletic pose on the beach at the Venice Lido at the feet of beauty, as represented by Madame Simon Rolo

Daisy Kennedy the violinist by Madame Yevonde
" An artist to her fingertips". Daisy Kennedy (Mrs. John Drinkwater), 1893-1981, Australian-born concert violinist. Date: 1931

Tatler cover, The Hon. Mary Coke by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Mary Katharine Coke, younger daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Coke, and granddaughter of the Earl of Leicester, pictured at the time of her engagement to Thomas Cockayne Harvey

Mrs Anthony Eden by Madame Yevonde
Mrs Anthony Eden, nee Beatrice Beckett photographed by Madame Yevonde. The Tatler describes the picture as her latest portrait but in fact the image dates back to 1935 when a colour version of her as

Tatler cover, Lady Ironside by Madame Yevonde
Lady Ironside, formerly Miss Mariot Ysobel Cheyne, wife of Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of Imperial General Staff during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Mrs Peter Smith-Dorrien by Madame Yevonde
Mrs. Peter Smith-Dorrien, formerly Miss Bridget Liddell, with her dachshund pictured wearing a checked suit which is " one of Fashions last words" according to The Sketch magazine. 1931

The Countess of Seafield by Madame Yevonde
Nina Caroline Ogilvie-Grant, 12th Countess of Seafield (1906 - 1969), by Madame Yevonde. Married Derek Herbert Ogilvie-Grant-Studley-Herbert in 1930, divorced 1957

Laura Cowie with daughter Ursula by Madame Yevonde
Actress Laura Cowie (1892 - 1969), who in private life was Mrs John Hastings Turner, wife of the author and playwright, pictured with her daughter Ursula on the front cover of The Sketch in 1932 at

Lady Victoria Haig
The second of Field-Marshal Haigs three daughters, Victoria, captured by Madame Yevonde. 1927

Suffragettes in wax: a cabinet meeting of the militant ladies who seek the vote. The figures of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethwick Lawrence and Annie Kenny

Chez Fysher cabaret - Nielsen Fysher and Madame Stroeva
The Chez Fysher show at Oddeninos restaurant in London, 1924 featuring as its star attraction, Madame Dora Stroeva who sang Russian songs before nightly audiences of most of the theatrical stars of

Mrs. J. A. Davison & Dalmatian by Madame Yevonde
Mrs J. A Davison, formerly Cynthia Beckett, daughter of Sir Gervase Beckett, pictured with a Dalmatian, According to The Tatler, she was an enthusiastic patron of the breed

Madame Genee in A Dream of Roses and Butterflies, 1914 Date: 1915

Gladys George in Madame X (1937) wearing a Dolly Tree gown Date: 1937

Hon. Eileen Hood by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Eileen Hood, sister to Viscount Bridport, and daughter of Maurice Hood by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1927

Lioness, Panthera leo, with cubs. Vulnerable. Handcolored engraving by Madame Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Family of street entertainers performing in Paris, 1815
Woman balancing on a candlestick on a table, while a child walks on its hands. Later, Madame Herculanus fixes two anchors in curling papers to her hair

Hairstyles of Josephine de Beauharnais, 1788, later wife to Napoleon, from murals in the bathrooms at Malmaison in the Roman style

Noble woman in Tricolor outfit, 1789
Noble woman wearing the colours of the Tricolor revolutionary flag, 1789. She wears a blue short redingote, short floral petticoat, and carries a red parasol

Women in hairstyles and hats of 1788
Woman in a gauze pouf hat decorated with ribbons and plumes, and woman in a gauze pouf hat decorated with artificial roses and plumes. Both in hairstyles of ringlets and curls by M

Man in fashionable suit, 1788
Man in suit of moss-green satin, white hose, tricorn hat, shoes with silver buckles and an epee. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times

Fashionable hats of 1788
Woman in large striped bonnet-hat over a gauze night cap, and woman in black felt hat with feather trim, ribbons and plumes

Woman in the fashion of 1788
Woman in jacket of Naples blue, petticoat in Naples yellow, large fichu jabot, straw hat decorated with a large violet ribbon tied to the front of her bodice

Women in fashionable hats of 1788
Woman in bonnet-hat in red, green and white, with yellow plumes and artificial roses, and woman in hat of gauze and taffeta surmounted by feathers

Fashionable armchairs of 1788: a bergere in striped silk and carved walnut, and a fauteuil in Aubusson tapestry and carved walnut

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