Mistress Collection (page 10)

Warming-Pan, C18
A maidsevant puts a warming- pan between the sheets of the bed in which her mistress will later sleep

Crime / James Hackman / C18
James Hackman, who murdered Martha Ray, mistress of the Earl of Sandwich on the 7th April 1779. He was tried and hanged

Emma, Lady Hamilton / Read
EMMA, LADY HAMILTON wife of Lord Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson

Mme De Pompadour / Boucher
JEANNE-ANTOINETTE POISSON (MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR) - Mistress to Louis XV of France

Countess of Jersey
FRANCES TWYSDEN Countess of Jersey Wife of the 4th Earl of Jersey and Mistress of George IV

Krishna and Radha
KRISHNA, the 8th avatar of Vishnu, with RADHA, one of the gopis (young women of the cowherd tribe) : whether as mistress or wife (opinions vary) she was his beloved

Riding in Hyde Park
London characters: the GROOM accompanies his mistress to Rotten Row in Hyde Park, to make sure she doesn t come to any harm by falling off or being molested by strangers

Girl with Bird and Dog
A little girl gives her caged bird his breakfast, while her dog looks on

Dorothy Jordan (Smith)
nee Bland; Actress, and mistress to the duke of Clarence (who became William IV)

Henriette De Balzac
CATHERINE HENRIETTE DE BALZAC d ENTRAGUES, MARQUISE DE vERNEUIL mistress of Henri IV, roi de France

Marguerite Bellanger
MARGUERITE BELLANGER (born Julie Leboeuf) French courtesan who rose from peasant beginnings to become the last mistress of Napoleon III

Insurance Stamps
A comment on Lloyd Georges National Insurance Act : a maidservant asks her mistress if she is supposed to stick the insurance stamps on herself... ?

COSTUME / 1450
AGNES SOREL Dame de Beaute (her estate) mistress of Charles VII of France, possibly poisoned by political enemies

Jane Roberts
JANE ROBERTS clergymans daughter, mistress to Charles II for a while, then to the earl of Rochester. with her autograph

Marguerite Georges
MARGUERITE GEORGES WEYMER French actress, made her Paris debut in 1802 and was briefly the mistress of Napoleon

Mistress & Maid 1919
Yet more sneering middle class humour at a maids expense. A haughty mistress pries into her maids life wanting to know her reasons for wanting an evening off. Typical!

Dorothea Jordan - 3
DOROTHEA JORDAN (nee Bland) actress and mistress of William IV; playing a travesti role in Wycherleys The plain dealer

Mary Robinson - 3
MARY ROBINSON actress, mistress of George IV The celebrated Perdita

Mary Robinson - 2
MARY ROBINSON actress, mistress of George IV as Amanda in Colley Cibbers Loves last shift

Mary Robinson - 1
MARY ROBINSON actress, mistress of George IV

Countess of Barry
JEANNE BECU, COMTESSE DU BARRY Paris shopgirl who became mistress to Louis XV but was guillotined during the Revolution

Mme De Pompadour / Costume
JEANNE-ANTOINETTE POISSON (MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR) - Mistress to Louis XV of France

JANE SCOTT / 1799
JANE ELIZABETH SCOTT Wife of 5th Earl of Oxford Mistress of Byron when she was 40, he 25

Helping Mistress
Waiting at table, the maidservant helps her mistress into her place

Instructing the Cook
The mistress of the house gives her cook her instructions for tonights dinner

MONMOUTH (1649 -1685)
JAMES SCOTT Duke of Monmouth; son of Charles II and his mistress Lucy Walter. Claimant to the English throne and leader of rebellion against James II. Date: 1649 - 1685

Hat with Apples 1909
A young woman, in corset, chemise & stockings, secures her new hat - an enormous concoction with a wide brim & trimmed with 4 apples, with a large hat-pin

Anne Boleyn Crowned
Anne Boleyn, Henry VIIIs mistress, secretly marries him and is crowned at Westminster Abbey, London

Black Mass 17th Century
The dubious abbe Guiborg, assisted by sorceress La Voisin, performs a messe noire to enable madame de Montespan, Louis XIVs mistress, to retain her power

MARTHA RAY Mistress of the 4th Earl of Sandwich

Gabrielle Estrees
GABRIELLE ESTREES Mistress of Henri IV

Harriet Arbuthnot
HARRIET ARBUTHNOT Wife of Charles Arbuthnot; mistress of the Duke of Wellington

Nell Gwyn, English actress, mistress of Charles II
Eleanor " Nell" Gwyn (or Gwynn or Gwynne), English actress, mistress of King Charles II

Scene from Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which Falstaff is concealed in a laundry basket by the merry wives, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page

DAVIES (1830-1901)
Emily Davies educator, mistress of Girton College, Cambridge

Rosamond Clifford, mistress of Henry II, King of England

Barbara Villiers Cleveland (1641-1709), duchess, countess of Castlemaine mistress of Charles II

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