Palais Gallery

Lingering music sheet cover

Music sheet for Lingering, performed at The Palais de Danse, London. The music was written by T. W. Thurban and the words by John P. Harrington. A couple are dancing in the foreground, the woman wearing a little red dress, the man in a harlequin costume. In the background a fancy dress ball at The Palais de Danse is underway. Date: 1921

© Mary Evans Picture Library/TAH Collection

Georgia - Tbilisi - Rue du Palais

Palace Street, Tbilisi - the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia and lying along the historic Silk Road routes, Tbilisi has often been the point of contention between various rivaling powers and empires"

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

At the Concours Hippique in the Palais d'Industrie, 1892

At the Concours Hippique in the Palais d'Industrie, 1892. Woman in lilac dress with lace trim, watching an equestrian show from a grandstand. The Concours central hippique de Paris was a horse exhibition held every spring.Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzanne's Fashion in Paris, William Heinemann, London, 1898

© Florilegius