Sidesaddle Collection

Princess Elizabeth riding as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards
Princess Elizabeth (1926-2022) (later Queen Elizabeth II) riding in the uniform of Colonel of the Grenadier Guards - pictured outside Buckingham Palace. Preparing to hold the reins of power

Basque woman riding a donkey
Basque peasant woman (from the far south of France) riding sidesaddle on a donkey. She carries an absolutely superb wicker basket. Date: circa 1910s

French fashion plate, lady sidesaddle on horse
French fashion plate, lady sitting sidesaddle on a horse with a deerhound alongside. circa 1850s

A game keeper giving directions to a couple fox hunting, 19th century. Facey Romford and Lucy Somersville on the trail of a fast bag fox. Fresh as a four year old

Riders, horses and dogs on a New Year card
Riders, horses and dogs in a country lane on a New Year card, with a lady riding sidesaddle. Date: circa 1890s

Lady riding side-saddle on a donkey
A pretty young lady is transported in style on a donkey, sheletered from the midday sun by a parasol. Her boyfriend is less lucky, gallantly trotting along in her wake on foot

Regency gentleman riding with his belle
Regency gentleman riding with his love, embarrassed by his horses constant flatulence. A parson rides a bony nag in the background. Love and Wind

Landowner discovering poachers netting partriduges on his land, 19th century. Mr. Jorrocks sees Benjamin wringing the neck of a partridge that Joshua Sneakington has handed him from a net

Two English gentlemen evaluating a horse in a paddock, 19th century. A jockey sits on Hercules, a groom Leather holds the horses head

English huntswoman jumping sidesaddle over a fence, 19th century. Facey Romford unable to follow Lucy Somersville over a hedge. What matter did it make to him how she rode, confound this ugly place

Huntsmen and women watch the fox-hounds let out of a pen before a hunt, 19th century. Facey Romford in green coat, and Lucy Somersville sidesaddle on her horse

English lady riding sidesaddle in a fox hunt, 19th century. Lord Marchhare points out the fox and hounds to Rosa McDermott. Rosa and the Earl

English lady driving a carriage through the busy streets
English lady in crinoline dress with parasol driving a pony-drawn basket-carriage through the busy streets of a small town. The whole town staring at her and her mother. Rosa McDermott at Mayfield

English gentleman with his fallen horse during a fox hunt, 19th century. Jack Bunting and a woodman in smock and boots try to raise the sick horse. Mr Buntings shocking bad horse

Pitcher plants and caper bush
Purple sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia purpurea, yellow sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia flava, and taper-leaved caper, Capparis acuminata

Noble women of Senez, Provence, and German
Noble women of Senez, Provence, one riding sidesaddle with a page, and another walking with a boy (top) and German women of the same era from Jost Ammans playing cards

Cartoon, Pillion-bibycle 1875
An idea for the tandem, a man pedaling at the front with the woman sitting precariously at the back sidesaddle. 1875

Young Queen Victoria on horseback. circa 1830s

Advert, W Shingleton, Tailor & Habit Maker
Advert, W Shingleton, New Bond Street, London, Tailor & Habit Maker - showing a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse. 1880

Riding sidesaddle Date: 1910

Nottingham Goose Fair
A pretty young woman riding a large goose sidesaddle-style at the Nottingham Goose Fair. Date: 1905

RIDING OLD AND NEW
The old way of riding... and the new. Date: circa 1830

FRENCH HORSEWOMAN 1805
A French woman riding sidesaddle in the park stops to talk to a friend Date: 1805

LADY RIDER AND GENT
A lady riding sidesaddle causes a gentleman to raise his hands - but whether at her riding skills, her beauty or her recklessness, who knows ? Date: circa 1660

Medieval hunting scene -- a man and a woman on horseback, with birds of prey and dogs. Date: early 20th century

Woman riding a horse on a greetings card
Woman riding sidesaddle on a horse on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Queen Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), wife of King James I of England, seen here on horseback

Music cover, La Pricesse Valse (The Princess Waltz), composed and dedicated to HRH Prince Albert by Felix Gantier. Depicting Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Sketches in the Hunting Field - The Finish. 1880

Women police officers, one on horseback
Women police officers in uniform, one on horseback (Eva Christy) and one on foot (Nina Boyle). Date: circa 1910s

Victoria / Horse / Theron / 48
Queen Victoria on her favourite horse, Theron Date: 1848

Italian Mountain Girl riding a mule sidesaddle Date: 1905

Queen Victoria awarding medals in Hyde Park, London, to those who had fought in the Indian Mutiny, the Crimean War and other conflicts. Date: 1857

Queen Elisabeth of Belgium on horseback
Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (consort of Albert I) on horseback, with soldiers and civilians following behind her on foot

Holidaymakers riding donkeys on a beach
Holidaymakers riding donkeys sidesaddle on a beach. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- runaway horse, Tom the Pipers Son
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a woman on a runaway horse. Below -- Tom the Pipers Son stealing a pig. Date: early 20th century

People on horseback, going to collect peat
Two people on horseback, a man and a woman, going with their wickerwork baskets to collect peat (cut turf). Date: 1920s

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