Robida Collection

Robidas rotating house
Maison tournante arienee or aerial rotating house, one of Albert Robidas futuristic visions of life in the 20th century

La Ville En Feu! The City On Fire!
An atmospheric illustration of an ornately designed bridge under a darkening, hazy sky, in front of an audience of monstrous gargoyles. Date: circa 1901

Porte Sainte-Croix Windmill
An illustration of a large windmill sat on a comparitively small hill at Porte Sainte-Croix, in Bruges, Belgium. Date: circa 1901

Porte Saint-Malo in Dinan
An illustration of the Porte Saint-Malo in Dinan, Brittany, northwest France. Date: circa 1901

Modern Style Street
A colourful illustration showing a busy scene in what is a modern style street from the viewpoint of a French artist in 1901

Cycliste Et Mere Cyclist And Mother
A portrait illustration of a young lady breastfeeding her child, she is sat beside her bicycle. Date: circa 1901

Les Travailleurs De l'Enlaidissement
An illustration of a tightly packed group of debating members of the Municipal Council, accompanied with a descriptive caption as follows

Les Coulisses d'Une Feerie
This illustration depicts a scene in which young ladies are gathered, wearing colourful short dresses, with fairy wings and antennae, ready to perform in the Ballet of the Insects. Date: circa 1901

At The Sea Baths, The Raft
An illustration of a large wooden raft in the ocean, gloating at a steep angle, causing various swimmers to struggle to stay on board, a nearby lady is preparing to dive off. Date: circa 1901

At The Sea Baths La Potiniere
This illustration provides a broad view of an event at the sea baths, attendants are dining outside a row of huts, with a game of tennis active in the background, by a ship in dry dock

At The Sea Baths
This illustration portrays a line of men from a side angle, at the sea baths. Date: circa 1901

At The Sea Baths, The Ladies Bath Rope
A group portrait illustration which shows a row of eight women clinging onto a bath rope, with calm, relaxed facial expressions. Date: circa 1901

Futuristic French Illustration
An illustration of a futuristic community, as predicted from the viewpoint of Albert Robida, circa 1901, with people, still wearing fashions from the period, driving flying cars. Date: circa 1901

In The Good Old Times
An illustration of a crowded 17th century city, spectators make way for a cavalier riding on horseback through the street, beside some attractive tall buildings. Date: circa 1901

Les Korrigans
A sketch showing a group of korrigan, a fairy or dwarf like creature from Breton folklore, bounding around the central female figure who is placed under the large, flat rock. Date: circa 1901

The ChAteau de Tonquedec
A landscape sketch of a foreground woodland scene placed beside the bend of a river, below the elevated view of The ChAteau de Tonquedec, a castle in the Cotes d'Armor departement of France

One Hundred Years of Eternal Feminine, late 1800s
A group of portrait illustrations of young French ladies from the late 1800s, wearing fashions from the 1850s onwards. Date: circa 1901

Le Guet The Watch
This illustration portrays a knight in shining armour, standing proudly with his hands placed on his hips as he watches over the countryside, his city is visible in the distant background

One Hundred Years of Eternal Feminine, early 1800s
A group of portrait illustrations of young French ladies from the early 1800s, wearing fashions from decades including 1810s and 1830s. Date: circa 1901

Le Tournoi The Tournament
This illustration shows a group of colourfully dressed young ladies spectating a jousting tournement, they are currently admiring a competitor performing on his armoured horse. Date: circa 1901

Gown of 1835 / Robida
The clothing of a fashionable Parisienne of 1835 according to a later source wears a pink gown with full bishop sleeves, lace mancherons & a broad green sash belt with a buckle. Date: 1835

Gowns of 1830 / Robida
Gowns of 1830 according to a later source with gigot sleeves. One gown has a ruff & lace mancherons. One lady wears a fur tippet. Both have their hair in Apollo knots. Date: 1830

Gown of 1810 / Robida
A fair Parisienne of 1810 according to a later source, wears a high-waisted striped gown with puffed sleeves & vandyked trim, a tall crowned hat & shawl. Date: 1810

Station centrale des a鲯nefs ࠎotre-Dame (Central
Station centrale des a鲯 nefs ࠎ otre-Dame (Central aircraft station at Notre Dame). Robida drawing for his book Le Vingti譥 Si裬 e (1883)

Columbus at Convent
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS at the convent of La Robida, he plans his voyage. Date: 1446 - 1506

Albert Robida
ALBERT ROBIDA French illustrator, notably of life in the future

Gown of 1814 / Robida
A fair Parisienne of 1814 according to a later source, wears a green gown with scalloped hemline & ruff, a hat with large brim & rosette & a fringed shawl

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