Profiles Collection

Five Famous Conductors in Silhouette - who took part in Bournemouths Festival of Music in 1922, organised by Mr. Dan Godfrey at the Winter Gardens

WW2 - Careless Lives
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Careless Lives, written by Desmond Leslie. The image shows tw opposing side profiles of young women

Jany Holt at the Marigny Theatre
Jany Holt (1909-2005), born Ruxandra Vladescu Olt, was a Romanian actress who worked extensively in French cinema. At the time of publication she was appearing in the play Box B at the Marigny

Peggy Ashcroft and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991) appearing as Cecily Cardew and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992) as Gwendolyn Fairfax, in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Globe Theatre. Date: 1939

Lady Moira Combe with her daughter Audrey
Lady Moira Combe (1902-1964) poses with her daughter Audrey, who is shortly to be presented at court. Date: circa 1939

Three comic profiles with movable chain. Date: circa 1920s

Front cover portrait, Lady Moira Combe -- In a Bowl of Chrysanthemums. Date: 1930

Front cover photo, Of Old Egypt and Modern Beauty
Front cover photo, Profile Parity -- Of Old Egypt and Modern Beauty -- Lady Kay Muir, Queen Nefertiti, and Madame Guepin. Date: 1930

Algeria - A Moor Date: circa 1907

Plastic Surgery - Before and After
Examples of patients who have undergone plastic surgery in the 1920s, to accompany an article in " The Sphere" magazine, entitled " New Faces for Old." 1927

William Gladstone as twins
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE (1809-1898) as both First Lord of theTreasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, ensuring a single- minded approach to finance

Teotihuacan Mural Mexico
Mural from Teotihuacan, Mexico

Corporal Violet
NAPOLEON I: Profiles of Maria Louisa, Napoleon & their child can be seen in this posy of violets. The flower being the symbol his adherents used to recognize each other by

The House of Peril by Horace Annesley Vachel
Promotional postcard for The House of Peril by Horace Annesley Vachel from Mrs Belloc Lowndes novel The Chink in the Armour (1912). First produced at the Queens Theatre, 8th March 1919

Bath Characters by Edouart - Mr John Basnet
Mr C. H. Basnet, architect, and his wife, Mrs R. Basnet pictured in silhouette by the artist Edouart on 3rd April 1827, one of a series of Bath characters. Date: 1827

Conductors at Bournemouth Festival of Music H. L. Oakley
Five famous conductors who took part in Bournemouths Festival of Music organised by Mr Dan Godfrey at the Winter Gardens. From left, Mr Edward German, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Alexander Mackenzie

Major General C. T. Nicholson, GOC of the 34th Division during the Battle of the Somme, replacing his predecessor, Major Ingouville-Williams who had been killed by German artillery fire near

Major General Sir J M Babington KCB. GOC 23rd Division
Major-General Sir James Melville Babington (Babbington) (1854 -1936) in command of the 23rd Infantry Division in 1915. Silhouette by Captain H. L

Major-General Thomas Stanton Lambert (1871-1921), GOC of the 32nd Division during the First World War. Silhouette by Captain H. L. Oakley who was Lamberts ADC. Date: c.1919

Major A. H. S. Waters VC
Sir Arnold Horace Santo Waters VC, CBE, DSO, MC (23 September 1886, Plymouth 22 January 1981, Sutton Coldfield), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

Lieutenant Colonel Marshall V. C. M. C
Lieutenant Colonel John Neville Marshall, V.C, M.C.. Served in the Irish Guards, the 2nd Manchesters and commanded the 16th Lancashire Fusiliers

H. L. Oakley cutting a portrait in his studio
Silhouette artist, Harry Lawrence Oakley, known as H. L. Oakley pictured cutting the portrait of a young woman in a cloche hat and fur stole in a studio

Silhouettist advertisement, early nineteenth centurh
Advertisement for a silhouettist, or silhouette artist, publicising, profiles taken here at 2, 6 each. Date: c. 1810

Silhouette portraits in caricature
A series of silhouette portraits in caricature, probably German, from the first half of the 19th century. Date: c.1820

Silhouette portraits, early 19th century
A group of silhouette portraits from the Regency period. Clockwise from top left, a painted silhouette with gold pencilling

Hindenburg / Periscope
PAUL VON HINDENBURG German General and statesman with General Ludendorff and Oberst Hoffmann (right) in Poland

Garrick / Hogarth / Silhouet
Silhouette profiles of David Garrick, actor, and William Hogarth, artist

Montgolfier Bros / Miniatu
THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS French balloonists, Etienne and Joseph

Kent / George / Marina / 1935
GEORGE, DUKE OF KENT Son of George V with his wife, Princess Marina of Greece (they married in 1934)

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping