Monocle Collection (page 3)

Hobble skirt fashion victim
A fashionable ladys vision and gait is impaired by her enormous hat and tight hobble skirt. A chance encounter with a gentlemen friend, also out walking his dog, saves the day. Date: 1911

The Fairys Dilemma by W. S. Gilbert. First produced at the Garrick Theatre, on 3rd May 1904. The main characters are shown as themselves

Hugh Wakefield by Giuseppe Amisani
Portrait of English actor Hugh Wakefield (1888-1971), possessing, according to The Sketch in which this painting was reproduced, a genius for the portrayal of inoffensive inebriates

Victorian scrap - Theatre character in pink and blue costume. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - The Old Earl
Victorian Scrap - The Old Earl. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - The Eldest Son
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - The Eldest Son. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - Hot Place Indiar
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - Indiar Yas Indiar! Hot Place Indiar! late 19th century

Victorian scrap - 20 Livings in his Gift
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - 20 Livings in His Gift. late 19th century

Cartoon, A W Pinero and Sir Squire Bancroft
Cartoon, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director, and Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager

Cartoon, John Lawrence Toole as Hamlet
Cartoon of John Lawrence Toole (1830-1906), English comic actor, theatre manager and producer. Seen here in an imaginary performance of Hamlet

Cartoon, F W Irish, actor
Cartoon, F W Irish -- (Warm). Actor who appeared alongside Henry Irving in various productions at the Lyceum Theatre. 1883

WW1 - Satirical Caricature of a German Officer, wearing standard Pickelhaube and monocle. Date: circa 1915

Victorian Scrap -- Masher. late 19th century

Lord Dundreary proposing, Our American Cousin
Lord Dundreary proposing - a scene from the play by Tom Taylor, Our American Cousin, first performed in 1858. The role of this brainless English aristocrat was created on stage by Edward Askew

Advertisement for Jeanne Lanvin fashions, showing people on holiday in Egypt. 1929

The Eighth Wonder! by H M Bateman, is an illustration of the member of the RAC who actually OWNS a car. A large group of men socialising in a room stand apart from one man who is centre of

Who said Liar? Confident young chap tells a likely fib
Who Said Liar? - A red-faced rather-awkward-looking young chaps tells a rather tall tale: " And Bai Jove She fell in love with me on the spot, Doncherknow" ! Date: 1910

Greetings card in the shape of a pair of binoculars, with three humanised birds playing snooker in the foreground. Date: circa 1890s

Comic humanised turkey on a Christmas label. Date: circa 1880s

Comic heads on fifteen Victorian scraps
Comic heads of men and women on fifteen Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Three pigs celebrating on a French New Year postcard
Three pigs celebrating with champagne on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Colourful clown on a novelty postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Bulldog in evening dress on a greetings postcard
Bulldog in evening dress with champagne on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Smiling man in a hat on a place card
Smiling man with a red nose on a place card. Date: circa 1890s

Two pigs on a Good Luck card, one of them smoking a pipe. Date: circa 1890s

Snowman and woman on a Christmas postcard
Snowman with a woman sitting on his knee on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Man with champagne on a movable Christmas card. circa 1890s

Clement Hobson, co-owner of the smart restaurant chain Ciro s, in Paris, Deauville, Monte Carlo and London. Also Chairman of the London Opera House

Misfitz - Dicky. early 20th century

Poster advertising ERBOS hat makers of Cherbourg, France. Date: circa 1930

Caricature of Algernon Syms, actor
Caricature of Algernon Syms (?-1915), actor. 1880

Cartoon, H J Byron and J L Toole at dinner
Cartoon, Henry James Byron (standing, 1835-1884), English dramatist, editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor, and John Lawrence Toole (seated, 1830-1906)

Cartoon, Disraeli and the Prince of Wales, with a puppet of Gladstone. This is how Beaky tried to amuse our future king at Hughenden. 1880

The Spanish Coquet -- woman holding a fan, with feathers in her hair. circa 1850s

The Evil Eye -- woman looking at someone from behind a fan. circa 1850s

Old Maid card - The Rake. circa 1940s

Cartoon, tailoring for actors, J L Toole
Cartoon, tailoring for actors -- Actors pieces may be made up nowadays with every consideration to peculiarity of figure. (This cartoon is not intended to apply to anybody in particular)

Caricature of Ashmead Bartlett, Conservative MP
Caricature of Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (1849-1902), American-born British Conservative politician, MP from 1880 until 1902. Described here as the secret of Englands greatness. 1883

Caricature of Harry Paulton and Johns Clarke, actors
Caricature of Harry Paulton (1842-1917) and Johns Clarke (1833-1899), actors -- The Two Dromios (of Ephesus and Syracuse respectively)

Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft and Mowbray Morris
Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager, and Mowbray Morris, theatre critic, with other critics in the background enjoying food and drink in the Critics Buffet

Snap card - Humpty Dumpty
Nursery Rhyme Snap card - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. early 20th century

Caricature of the actor-manager Sir. Squire Bancroft
Caricature of the English actor-manager Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) -- The idea of summoning a society actor as a juryman at a coroners inquest! 1881

Cartoon, Wheres the Cat?
Cartoon, man and cat -- Wheres the Cat? 1880

Caricature of Walter Webling and Alfred Watson
Caricature of Walter Webling (seated, aka Walter Clifford Weblyn, 1846-1928), owner of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, and Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (on horseback, 1849-1922)

Caricature of John L Toole, English actor and manager
Caricature of John Lawrence Toole (1830-1906), English comic actor, theatre manager and producer -- Now, George, down with the shutters, or the public will begin to think we ve retired from business

Caricature, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Charles H Ross
Caricature, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), popular English novelist, and Charles Henry Ross (1835-1897), English journalist, artist and novelist -- Fair Boiling-Down Fiction Trade

Caricature of Arthur Sullivan and Ws Gilbert -- The Latest Converts to Aestheticism. A reference to their latest operetta, Patience, a satire on the aesthetic movement. 1881

Caricature of Claude Carton, British actor and playwright
Caricature of Richard Claude Carton (Richard Claude Critchett, 1856-1928), British actor and playwright. Seen here in the role of Barnes Durant in A W Pineros play, Imprudence

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