Poise Collection

Madame Vacani
Madame Marguerite Vacani, dance and deportment teacher pictured in caricature as walking on air, and admired by a group of adoring debutantes

Goochs Jurna Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Goochs Vogue & Value, promoting Jurna corsets, which gives women graceful lines and poise

Advert for anglepoise lamp
Advert for Terry's Anglepoise lamp, ideal for use during blackouts. Date: 1940

Advert for Terry Anglepoise Lamps - currently unavailable to buy, due to the war. Date: 1943

Wartime advert for Vani-Tred shoes, designed to ensure superb poise. Date: 1943

Young man standing in a panelled room, 18th century
Young gentleman standing in a panelled room, 18th century. Copperplate engraving from The Polite Academy, or Instructions for a Genteel Behaviour and Polite Address in Masters and Misses, R

A Kashmiri woman with a basket and pot on her head walks along a grassy ridge in the Vale of Kashmir. The Himalayan foothills in the background Date: 1989

Court presentation, the convolutions of the train
As a society lady is presented at court, the logistical difficulty of curtseying to the Queen while simultaneously trying to manage her huge train, is captured by an ILN artist

Deportment Lesson
A proper young lady learns the art of deportment, walking with the obligatory book balanced on the head, shoulders back and head held up! Date: 1930s

Ballet dancer on a New Year card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Boule Players - Brittany, France - Beuzec-Cap-Sizun
The Decisive blow Boule Players - Brittany, France - Beuzec-Cap-Sizun. Date: circa 1910s

Ballet Couple

Two ice skaters - one falling over
Quite from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: " He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural." The perfect accompaniment to this humorous cartoon postcard depicting a suave

Baldwin Broadcasts, 1924
The first use of radio by party leaders in a general election: Mr Stanley Baldwin reading his address to the public into a microphone at the London headquarters of the BBC

Dreaming Music Cover
A very fine music cover for Dreaming by Anthony Stephen and Michael Prado, depicting a glamorous woman drifting off into the magical world of her thoughts

What a jolly cricketer he would make
A school boy cricketer admires a suit of armour and imitates the poise and the position of the statues sword, with his cricket bat

Photograph of electrical counter-poise table for taking automatic photographs, 8 March 1932. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into the mediumistic

Wood Green Cycle Club
The members of Wood Green (Essex) Cycle Club poise for a group photo : this is the great age of cycling, when roads are uncongested and cycling is a pleasure

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