Masked Collection

The Chariot by Kay Nielsen
An image of a dancer being carried to her carriage in the background by a masked man. Date: 29th January 1930

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

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

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

Mergellus albellus, smew
Plate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

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

Shakespeare / Much Ado
Antonio, Hero and Beatrice

C18TH COSTUME / 1913
C18th costume for a masked ball: gold dress with panniers & echelles, white petticoat ornamented with a garland of roses, black lace engageantes, a high white wig with roses

The Russian Mountains, Les Montagnes Russes, Paris, 1812
Fashionable couple at the Russian Mountains rollercoaster, Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville, built in 1812. (The first switchback, Year VII, 1799). Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Spectacled owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata (Masked owl, Strix larvata). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Commedia dell arte Italian. 16th century. Engraving, 19th century. Colored

Masquerade Ball at the Coliseo del Principe, circa 1771-1802
History of Spain. Masquerade Ball at the Coliseo del Principe, circa 1771-1802. By Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona (1740-1805). Etching and engraving on paper. History Museum. Madrid. Spain

Dunfermline Abbey, Palace and Fratry Hall
A photograph which shows a view, masked by trees, of Dunfermline Abbey, with the palace and Fratry Hall also visible. Date: circa 1904

The Jealous Devil, Alfred Crowquill's sketches from Jullien's Bal Masque, Date: 1850

Theatre programme, Compiegne Palace, 29 October 1856, two one-act comedies played before the Emperor. Date: 1856

Theatrical Drawing
A lot is happening in this graphic drawing. The image has many theatrical and musical elements, including a butterfly, which leaves a swooping trail of melodic notes

Gas masks at the Windmill
Chorus girls, cast members and theatre staff at the Windmill Theatre in London, doing a gas mask drill. Date: 1939

Advert for Max Factor eye make-up. Date: 1954

Elegant French ladies dancing at a masked ball
This is an advertising postcard for Ruinart Pere et Fils, the oldest French Champagne house in Reims.The ball is one of two which will take place at the Theatre Royal de la Monnai

Poster, Masked Ball, Baur au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland
Poster, Masked Ball, Kunsthaus, Baur au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland, 10-12 February 1923 Date: 1923

Maude Adams in The Masked Ball Date: 1890s

The Scarlet Mr Es and their Jester, the Famous Masked Entertainers, Palace Theatre, Brighton Date: early 20th century

Russians wearing gas-masks in precaution of a chemical warfare attack, various scenes as people go about their daily work. Date: 1932

A review on the Square of the Invalides, 1835. Woman in pink dress with canezou shawl, straw bonnet and parasol. French cavalry and infantry parade on the Esplanade des Invalides

Revellers in costume at a masked ball in a large theater. Partygoers dressed as a monk, Falstaff, harlequin, Turk, violinist, etc

Young English gentlemen racing four-horse carriages on a road. iHandcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes The Dance of Life, Rudolph Ackermann

Olax stricta. Spermaxirum strictum, Olace stremenzita. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science

Woman in dress of duvetyn and jacket bordered in fox fur
Woman in duvetyn dress and jacket bordered in fox fur. Robe de duvetyn amadou, paletot borde de renard. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by H

Illustration from Reigen Magazine Germany showing a carnival
Illustration from Reigen Magazine, Germany, 1926 showing a carnival. Sketch by Vallee Date: 1926

Cover of Reigan Magazine, Germany, 1926
Cover of Reigan Magazine, 1926 with a masked ball or carnival theme Date: 1926

Lady Alexandra Haig and Lady Lettice Ashley-Cooper
Christmas carol party at Londonderry House organised by Miss Olga Lynn in aid of the Devon Nook Home for Unmarried Mothers, December 1938

Return from the masked ball
Return from the ball: a young man flirts with several women undressing after a costume ball. During carnival you must be especially vigilant, old husbands of young wives, outdated lovers

A meeting at a masquerade ball
A meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks

Preparing for a masked ball, 1800s
Preparations for a masquerade. We no longer see harlequins and pierrots at masked balls, but instead costumes of Switzerland and Normandy

Masquerade party on the rollercoaster at the Salle de l Odeon, 1815. Fashionable society at a masked ball in the pleasure gardens, and women wearing the Swiss Bernese style

Masked water tyrant, Fluvicola nengeta (Mocking water-chat). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Eastern fox squirre, Sciurus niger (Muzzled or masked squirrel, Sciurus capistratus)

Masked shining parrot, Prosopeia personata (Blue-faced parrot, Psittacus capistratus). Handcoloured engraving of a specimen in the Linnean Society Museum from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by

Masked palm civet or gem-faced civet, Paguma larvata (Masked glutton, Gulo larvatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bradley after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from a specimen in

Young lady of quality at a masked ball, demoiselle de qualite, France, 1586. She holds a mask in her right hand and a cantenance (muff) in her left. A mirror and fan hang from her belt

Lady with Chinese lantern
Lady at a masked ball holding a Chinese lantern. 1920s

Lady Diana Cooper as a china figure, Venice, 1926
Lady Diana Cooper, formerly Lady Diana Manners, in her china costume which she intended to wear to Baroness D Erlangers Ball at the Fenice Theatre in Venice

Curtis British Entomology Plate 465
Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoris apterus (Masked Bug) [Plant: Malva sylvestris (Common Mallow)] Date: 1824-39

Severe low-lying fog crisis over the capital of London, which afflicted London between the 1870s and the mid-1890s. Date: 1882

During the winter festivals in Europe paraded the streets and entered houses to dance or play dice in silence. Date: 13th - 16th century

MASKED GIRL / OVAL 1897
A woman in yellow dress and hat, dancing at a masquerade. Date: 1897

SOCIAL / GERMAN BALL 1890S
People at a masked ball in the Deutschen Theater, Munich Date: 1890s

THE GLOBE / HENRY IV C17
Masked and pipe-smoking ladies in the Pit watching a performance of Shakespeares Henry IV. Date: 17th century

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