Mask Collection

Recruitment poster for the Corps of Military Police - Second World War. circa 1940

Fishing on Lough Mask, Co. Mayo, Republic of Ireland
Fishing on Lough Mask, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland

WW2 - Home Front - Woman in her Gas Mask. Date: circa 1941

Mask of Tutankhamun
The famous mask of Pharoah TUTANKHAMUN, ruler of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt 1361 - 1352 BC, (Egyptian Museum, Cairo), made of solid gold, with inlaid glass and lapis lazuli

WWI German gas mask, c 1918, in its original metal containe
First World War German gas mask, c. 1918, in its original metal container

WW2 poster -- gas attack, with instructions on how to put on your gas mask, what to do if the gas rattles sound, and what to do if you get gassed. Date: 1940s

Ludwig van Beethoven - studied from the death mask i. e. life
Ludwig van Beethoven - studied from the death mask i.e. life mask. Photograph of bust statue by Hugo Hagen, based on life mask by Franz Klein done in 1812

Beethovan Life Mask
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Life mask of the German Composer

Golden Mask of Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun
The famous mask of Pharoah TUTANKHAMUN, ruler of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt 1361 - 1352 BC, (Egyptian Museum, Cairo), made of solid gold, with inlaid glass and lapis lazuli

Gas proof pram, 1938. A resident of Hextable in Kent, invented a gas proof pram in which a baby could be kept safe during an air raid

Horsemen filming Robin of Sherwood, Cornwall
Three horsemen in demon costume, filming the TV series Robin of Sherwood near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Date: 1980s

Annie Peck masked and dressed for climbing
Annie Smith Peck (October 19, 1850 July 18, 1935), American mountaineer pictured in her climbing outfit at the time she had scaled Mount Huascan

Elspeth Phelps advertisement, 1920
Lady Elcho, formerly Lady Violet Manners (born 1888), wife of Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho and heir to the Earl of Weymss. She was sister to Lady Diana Manners

Enjoying the Ice near a Town, c. 1620, by Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634). Dutch painter. Enjoying the Ice near a Town, c. 1620. Rijskmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Hillary and Tensing on Mount Everest
Hillary and Tensing nearing the summit of Mount Everest. Date: 1953

The carnival in the port of Spain, Trinidad, 1888. People cavort in fancy dress through the street, some playing banjos, others brandishing what looks like bladders on sticks

LEOPARDI, Giacomo (1798-1837). Italian writer
" LEOPARDI, Giacomo (1798-1837). Italian writer. Drawing according the funerary mask on the frontispiece of his " Opere" (Florence)."

Pierrot and Columbine -- Smile, Please
Columbine tickles a gloomy Pierrot with a peacock feather and asks him to Smile, Please!

Mieczyslaw Pianowski, Polish ballet dancer
Mieczyslaw Pianowski (c1891-1967), Polish ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer. circa 1920s

Carnival in Venice by C. H. Shepard
Glowing and colourful scene showing various masked revellers enjoying the Carnival in Venice

Ww2 Gas Mask
A man demonstrates how to put on a gas mask

The Apiarist - a bee keeper demonstrating the examination of frames of brood

Doffing the Mask
Doffing the mask !

X-X-X-X-Xmas by J. Gordge
Two lovers dressed as Columbine and Harlequin prepare for a romantic kiss at what looks to be a deserted party

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - I m doin me knit
The Caption reads I m doing my knit - a play on the wartime need to do your bit. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1941

Evacuee children in gas masks near Windsor, 1941
London babies find peace in the country: a nurse walks evacuated children in gas masks across a playground, to accustom them to the wearing of gas masks. LCC Residential School near Windsor

Two women police officers in gas masks, London, WW2
Two women police officers in gas masks in London during the Second World War. One of them is Florence Bragg (joined November 1936). Date: 1940s

LCC-LFB Breathing apparatus communications set
A Sub Officer from Lambeths (D61) emergency tender crew demonstrating the Southampton communications equipment that was worn with a full face mask on the Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set

Mask dancers in Kerala, India
Two mask dancers in Cochin, Kerala State, India

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Man in the Iron Mask, playing the cello in prison
There are conflicting theories as to who this man was

Jessie Stonor, sculptor
Portrait of the sculptor, Jessie Stonor, posed at the window of her London studio contemplating a mask of herself

Two women preparing for show at Windmill Theatre 1939
Two women in tin helmets photographed as they prepare for a show at the Windmill Theatre

Corporate J. L. Dawson VC
Corporal James Lennox Dawson VC of the Royal Engineers (1891-1967) pictured performing the action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross in October 1915

Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper by Madame Yevonde
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper, later Lady Alington posed with an unusual mask. Pictured in The Tatler just prior to her marriage to Lord Alington in November 1928. Date: 1928

Vase with classical reliefs by John Flaxman. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co

London Fire Brigades organisation and equipment
A selection of small drawings of the events that take place in 1937

Two boys saluting, probably during the Second World War. The one on the right is wearing a tin helmet and a gas mask

WW2 - Chemical Warfare Instruction - USA
WW2 - American soldiers undergoing Chemical Warfare Instruction at Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. Date: circa 1944

Sula capensis, Cape Gannet
Plate 2 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Britannia and Eve magazine, March 1940
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman wearing a red backless dress, red and white bangles and holding a white mask

Boy silhouetted against the sky, holding a crab
A boy wearing a diving mask stands silhouetted against the sea and sky, holding a crab

Policeman and policewoman with gas masks
A policeman and a policewoman wearing civilian gas masks outside Harrow Road Police Station (X Division) before the outbreak of World War Two. The respirator is contained in the canvas bag

Dog Gas Mask
Gas masks for dogs. A new gas mask for the protection of dogs which is a bag of impregnated flannel with a mica window secured by an elastic band. Used during World War II

Scuba Diver
A scuba diver inside a large metal water tank. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Cover of Police Mag. 1933
Magazine cover showing a dangerous masked woman

Minehead Hobby Horse
MINEHEAD HOBBY HORSE Seen here at the opening procession of Sidmouth Folk Week. The horse is made from painted hessian, cloth strips & has a painted mask face

Nikolai Zelinsky
NIKOLAI ZELINSKY Russian scientist, invented the first carbon-filter gas mask, winner of many Soviet awards

Martin Harvey in Scaramouche, a romantic drama in four acts by Rafael Sabatini, at the Garrick Theatre, London. Date: late 1920s

Man ploughing with gas mask, September 1939
Man photographed as he ploughs his field in Surrey. The Sphere notes his gas mask which he hangs from the handle of his plough. Date: 1939

Woman in a ball gown with mask, 1788
Woman in a ball gown, with chapeau topped with a pouf decorated with ribbons and laurel leaves, fichu, corset in English taffeta, and blue taffeta petticoat

Victor G Ginn & Co, catalogue (front cover)
Victor G Ginn & Co, High Holborn, London, catalogue (front cover), Price List of Carnival Novelties. 1939

I Want to be Happy, by Elsie Harding. 1925

Venetians in a gondola wearing bauta masks, 18th century, Italy, from a painting by Canaletto.. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F

GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠Masks
GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos頨 1886-1945). Masks. Expressionism. Oil on canvas. Private Collection

Sheet music cover, Selection from The Yellow Mask
Sheet music cover, a Selection of music from The Yellow Mask, a musical play by Edgar Wallace, produced by Julian Wylie and Laddie Cliff at the Carlton Theatre, London

Chocolate box design, lady in carnival mask
Chocolate box design, featuring the head and shoulders of a smiling lady in a carnival mask. Date: 20th century

Passer domesticus, house sparrow
Plate 32 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

The Graphic Christmas Number 1926 front cover
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number 1926 featuring an illustration depicting party goers arriving at a fancy dress ball

Waitresses wearing gas masks, WWII
Waitresses in a popular London restaurant going about their duties during the early weeks of the Second World War, with gas masks in a tin container worn like a bustle at the back of their waistband

WW2 Christmas card, dog with gas mask
WW2 Christmas card, a black Scots terrier runs along with a gas mask in a box tied to his collar. Date: circa 1942

Sitta sp. nuthatch
Plate 40 from a bound volume called Indian Birds Colouredd. Artrist probably Sheikh Zayn al-Din, possibly compiled by Lady Impey

Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet
A Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet, as used in wartime

Gas mask trials
A trial of gas masks, to test their effectiveness

Choose your Ideology
Choose whichever ideology suits you - church or conservative, scientist or communist, none is any better than the others

Looking for Queen Bee
Bee keeping - a method of holding a Brood Frame, when looking for the Queen Bee

LFB - Modern Breathing Apparatus. Modern compressed air BA sets are lightweight and very easy to use and service

Members of the Red Cross nurses of the Camberwell division learning how to use gas masks, under expert supervision of a Territorial Officer. Date: December 1933

Masterpiece of African Sculpture Sold 1958
The Benin mask, curved from a single piece of African elephant ivory, associated with King Esigie and his son, King Orhogbua, captured by a British punitive force in 1897

Ann Todd (1907 - 1993), English actress. Date: 1933

Young woman in winter outfit, 17th century. Black shawl worn over a tall bonnet, green and crimson gown, holding a masquerade mask. printed petticoat. Jeune Dame en Costume d'Hiver

Costume of a lady at the court of King Henry III of France, 1586. In square-cut bodice with standing lace collar, embroidered sleeves, with fan and masquerade mask. Dame de la Cour de Henri III

Male dancer of the Sandwich Isles, now Hawaii. In makini, a gourd helmet and mask with feather crest and tapa strips, short cape and loincloth

Mr. Edward Shuter, 18th century English stage actor
Mr. Edward Shuter (1728-1776), English stage actor famous for his roles in She Stoops to Conquer and The Rivals

David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer. David Garrick, actor-manager. The actor in wig, cravat, jacket and coat, holding a book

The skeleton of Death and a woman at her toilette. A young woman holds flowers in her hair sitting in front of a mirror at her dressing table. A mask and invitation to a masked ball lie on the floor

Scene from a tournament at Nuremberg, 16th century
Scene from a tournament at Nuremberg between the Hirshvogel and Riet noble families, 16th century. Two teams of lancers in an exercise match

The Pig-Faced Lady, famous in London circa 1815
The Pig-Faced Lady, with fur muff, famous in London circa 1815. "The Wonderful Miss Atkinson

Theaetetus of Athens in a helmet with the face of Socrates
Theaetetus of Athens, Greek mathematician, c. 417-369 BC, in a mask with the face of Socrates, Greek philosopher and the founder of Western philosophy, c. 470-399 BC

The Jugglers. Female figure of Vice performs tricks at a table for an audience in a candlelit room. She disappears a padlock on a senator's mouth. A figure hides under the tablecloth

Satirical engraving of the Eternal Masquerade, 18th century
Allegorical figure of Time with an hourglass placing masks on the face of a woman and gentleman wearing multiple masks

Customers trying on masks for a masquerade, 18th century
Customers trying on masks for a festival or masquerade ball, 18th century. Masks for an ingenue, modest actor, inconsolable widow, parasite, etc

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