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Wardrobes & dressing tables 1929Selection of wardrobes and dressing tables in a beautiful walnut, products for Harrods catalogue furniture department. Date: 1929
White bedroom suites 1929Selection of bedroom suites in luxury white enamel, with mirror on wardrobe door, products for Harrods catalogue furniture department. Date: 1929
Advert for Maple & Co bedroom suite 1886Bedroom suit, decorated with blue and pink, comprising of wardrobe with pale glass door, washstand with marble top, toilet table, large chest of drawers, toilet glass, three chairs
Bedroom suites 1929Selection of bedroom suites in walnut, products for Harrods catalogue furniture department. Date: 1929
Advert for Maple & Co drawing-room suite 1880Victorian Vicarage ebonized drawing-room suite consisting of 6 chairs 2 easy chairs with loose seats covered in silk plush, handsome cabinet with 2 bevelled and decortaed panel on cupboard doors
Queens dressing room, Balmoral, 1950sThe Queens Dressing Room at Balmoral Castle. With tartan carpet and comfortable chairs. Date: 1950s
Compact with Open FanCompact & fan with diamante decoration & silk tassel. The open fan has pierced sticks of ivory or imitation ivory. The compact has lipstick, powder puff & a mirror. Date: circa 1915
Trying on a Hat 1897A young blonde German lady in a red dress tries on a black hat strikingly trimmed in striped fabric. Date: 1897
Hampton Furniture / 1882A suite of furniture designed by Hampton and Sons. Date: 1882
Chinese Embroidery 1913A narrow fitting dress with bateau (boat) neckline made from an oriental (Chinese) fabric depicting cranes & flowers. She wears 2 long strings of beads. 1913
Evening Dress 1919La Robe Dindon: barrel-line evening gown with narrow shoulder straps with a long train descending from them - the whole ornamented with plumes as is the high headdress. Date: 1919
Room / General ElectricA room designed for the General Electric Company. Date: 1933
Dining Room / 1810The corner of a large and elegant living room. Date: 1810
Cartoon, postwar benefits. Two elegant French ladies are pleased that winning the war has allowed them to get out their low-cut dresses again, to dance the foxtrot, to eat cakes and dragees
Mother / Baby / Bathing 19CA German mother baths her baby in a bowl on a table. Date: late 19th century
Cartoon, Trying on a new hat, WW1Cartoon, showing a frivolous woman trying on a new hat. She complains: How long this war is taking! Her bored soldier husband replies: Not as long as it takes you to try hats on! Date: 1916
Girl Dresses at MirrorA little girl admires her party dress in the dressing table mirror. Date: 19th century
Woman in 1911Edwardian woman powders her chin with a powder puff, while holding a hat box in one arm and a handbag in the other. 1911
Merchant Venicw / NerissaAct II, Scene ix Nerissa, Portias waiting maid, looks into her mirror
Advert for Marshalls & Snelgrove cami- knickers 1926Marshall & Snelgrove advertisement for cami knickers. Date: 1926
Mabel Love 1906Mabel Love (1874 - 1953), English actress and dancer looking in a hand mirror
Dress Maker 1804A dress maker attends to her customer who is being fitted for a gown. Adjustments are made requiring a pair of scissors as the client admires the handiwork in the mirror. Date: 1804
Cartoon, The gift from France, WW1Cartoon, The gift from France, showing a German lady receiving a simply adorable gift from her soldier, a severed hand on a necklace. Date: 1915
Advert / Lucky Strike CigsLucky Strike cigarettes - they ll never let you down Date: 1935
Super Dressing CaseElegant - some would say, over-the-top - dressing case by Aspreys of London Date: 1861
Dressmaker 1827A young woman looks at her reflection in the mirror behind her while she is measured for a new dress. Date: 1827
Women Bathe at FountainTwo women, one in transparent drapery, bathe gracefully and bashfully by a fountain. Date: 18th century?
Gounod / Sambourne / PunchCHARLES GOUNOD French musician and composer - a satire on his opera, Faust - Chacun a son Gounod Date: 1818 - 1893
Rossetti / Dining RoomDANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet and artist in the Green Dining Room at his home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, with his friend Watts-Dunton Date: 1828 - 1882
Sir Walter Scott - Abbotsford - MirrorView of Abbotsford, Scotland, home of the novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), from the garden
Girl / Mirror (Photo) 1893" MY TRUE LOVE HATH MY HEART" An aesthetic-looking young woman gazes at herself in one of the three panels of a mirror. Date: 1893
Verdi in his studyGiuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) the Italian opera composer in later life working in his study
Bi-Borax OrientalThis lady uses Bi-Borax Oriental, an antiseptic detergent which cleans and purifies her skin : no wonder shes satisfied with what she sees in her mirror Date: 1891
Eyecare / Eyebrows 1928A lady attends to her eyebrows Date: 1928
Hanging stockings by Charles RobinsonChildren hang up Christmas stockings. Date: 1906
Girls Dress / CandlelightIf ladies be but young and fair, they have the gift to know it. Mother holds up a candle while her daughters dress. Date: 1821
Social / Chinese Lady 1840The boudoir and bed-chamber of a Chinese lady of rank Date: 1840
The Debutante 1850A debutante in a beautiful white satin dress and a rosette in her hair, fixes her hair in the mirror. She is admired by her proud mama and servants. Date: 1850
Advert for Maple fitted bedroom furniture 1898Inexpensive fitted bedroom furniture and also an example of a cabinet with casting and carved panels and a sink with hot and cold taps. Date: 1898
Joseph Spirati, Showroom, 12 Mortimer Street, LondonJoseph Spirati, Showroom displaying lamps and lampshades, 12 Mortimer Street, London. Date: circa 1910
Advert for Peter Robinsons corset 1901Maravel guinea corset, low in bust and deep over the hips. Date: 1901
Advert for Hampton & Sons bedroom suite 1886Bedroom suit, enamelled white wardrobe with bevelled edge to glass panel of door, toilet table, washstand with mable top and minton tile back, pedestal towel horse and two chairs. Date: 1886
Vain man looking in a mirror, c. 1770Vain and fashionable gentleman staring into a looking-glass, c.1770 Date: C.1770
Tatler cover - Mrs Peter Thorneycroft by Madame YevondeMrs Peter Thorneycroft, formerly Countess Carla Roberti, wife of the President of the Board of Trade pictured posed in front of an over mantel mirror by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1954
Advertisement for Wrights coal tar shampoo powder. Date: early 20th century
Francois Villette, French engineerFrancois Villette (1621-1698), French engineer, noted for his burning mirrors and his fireworks. circa 1680
Lady Lilith by D G Rossetti (1828-1882), engraved by Theodor Knesing (1840-?). Date: 1884
Art deco girlsThat you are sweet you surely know. Girls in art deco style fashion study themselves in a hand mirror. Date: 1923