Masquerade Gallery

Lady riding side-saddle on a horse stuck in a fence

Lady riding side-saddle on a horse stuck in a fence during a fox hunt, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somerville urges her horse Leotard out of the briars while Facey Romford and other huntsmen watch. Let me try then, said Lucy. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, Bradbury, Evans and Co., London, 1865. Leech (1817-1864) was an English caricaturist and illustrator best known for his work for Punch magazine

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French soprano Caroline Carvalho in Faust

Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French soprano, in the role of Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust at the Theatre de l'Opera, 1870s. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Morlon published by Martinet, Paris, 1870s

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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 on. I know you, but you'd don't know me, in other words I have many ways to put you on the spot, to play with you, and have fun at your expense, while you cannot take revenge, or see my faults or weaknesses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. 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 on. I know you, but you'd don't know me, in other words I have many ways to put you on the spot, to play with you, and have fun at your expense, while you cannot take revenge, or see my faults or weaknesses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Date:

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