Saddle Gallery

HRH Queen Elizabeth II - Trooping of the Colour

The Queen attending the Trooping of the Colour ceremony in her Coronation year, seen here riding to Horse Guards Parade on her official birthday to take the salute of the Brigade of Guards. She wears in her tricorn hat, the badge and white plume of the Grenadiers, the Colours of whose 1st Battalion were being trooped. Date: 1953

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Nurse administering a large enema syringe to a man in bed

Nurse administering a large enema syringe to a man in bed with his lover. The secret lover taking an enema instead of the girl. The clyster. Le remede. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaine's Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Tales and Novellas in Verse, Libraire de France, Paris, 1930

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Brewing, steel ware and gloves, and a mineral waters

Brewing, steel ware and gloves, and a mineral waters spa in Regency England. Brewers stirring vats of beer mash in a Reading brewery 4, women buying gloves in Woodstock 5, and the mineral waters at Cheltenham spa 6. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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