Suitor Collection

The Merry Wives of Windsor - title page - Anne Page and Slender, an inept and unsuccessful suitor. 1862

At Eve I Bring Thee Roses by Florence Hardy
A young Dutch girl sits by a spinning wheel while her suitor peers through the window having presented her with a bouquet of red roses

The Flirt
Coquettish young woman being pursued by a suitor. Date: 1905

Queen Mary surprising Courtenay and Princess Elizabeth
Queen Mary I surprising Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, and Princess Elizabeth. Although they were all related as second cousins

The Suitor
An illustration of a gentleman looking confidently casual as he speaks with a woman leaning forwards to pick up a bucket from the well. Date: circa 1901

Tibullus In The House Of Delia
A painting depicting a scene with figures sat at a table, clashing goblets together, the central figure is that of a woman with brown hair, touching a pendant that hangs around her neck, her suitor

Comic postcard, Girl and boy courtship scene Date: 20th century

Alighting from a coach
A young girl in Regency costume being escorted from her coach by a young suitor with a tricorn hat. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: circa 1905

Queen Elizabeth I dancing in her Palace in all her finery
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) is pictured here dancing before a rich man in her Palace wearing a beautiful skirt with a corset and her traditional thick layer of make-up

Marriageable man
The Marriageable Man - one daughter sings, another sighs, while their mother hovers over her prey to make sure this eligible suitor is firmly hooked to one or the other Date: 1842

Merchant Venice / Lorenzo
Act II, Scene vi Portrait of Lorenzo, suitor to Jessica

Greetings card in the shape of a dustpan and brush with a picture of a housemaid and her suitor. Date: circa 1890s

French Theatre -- Les Trois Galans
Les Trois Galans [Galants] (The Three Gallants or Suitors), a farce. Showing one of the gallants sitting on a chair, holding up a glass of wine. Date: 16th century

Ceremony of female circumcision - Conakry, Guinea
Conakry, Guinea, West Africa - Two young women during the Fetes de l excision (Ceremony of female circumcision / female genital mutilation) and their suitor. Date: circa 1904

Father and suitor on a postcard -- Why do you object to my marrying your daughter? -- Because you can t support her in the style shes been accustomed to all her life

An awkward position - true love never did run smooth circa early 19th century

Shakespeare - Pericles - King Simonides: Who is the first that doth prefer himself? (a procession of suitors for his daughter Thaisa) circa 1830

Wanted American Heiress - Victorian Scrap
Victorian Scrap - People Who Want to Marry - " Wanted American Heiress". A lazy aristocratic young gent on the hunt for riches without effort...! Date: circa 1890s

Scottish ballad, Auld Robin Gray -- a young woman agrees to marry Auld Robin Gray so that she can support her poor parents while the man she really loves is away at sea. 19th century

Love in a Garden - a smart lady takes charge of her men
Love in a Garden - a smart lady takes charge of her various men, supervising the tasks required! Date: 1901

The Frog Suitor
Woman is courted by a frog - but can she be sure he is really a prince in disguise ? (Theres a pun on the French word pretendant which means both suitor and impostor) Date: 1919

Proposal 1799
Oh! Listen to the voice of love A suitor, on bended knee, speaks of undying love to his red haired lady friend. Date: 1799

Refused
Dutch girl with a bunch of flowers turns away from her suitor with a disdainful look. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1915

Romantic duck
Birthday card. A suitor with flowers knocks athis ladys front door. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: circa 1925

Chocolate box design, 18th century sedan chair
Chocolate box design, featuring a lady in an 18th century sedan chair with two footmen and a suitor. Date: 20th century

A rather feeble suitor with a rather loud suit
He: " Oh! Smile upon my suit." She: " I do, I do. I can t help it." Date: 1895

Saucy postcard - Lady in Underclothes
" Come as you are" you write to me. But you d think it absurd, if sometimes when that message came I took you at your word! (I wonder if the sender of the note would really mind too much)

Tales from Many Lands: The Three Peaches

The latest suitor. Illustration shows Prince Henry offering bouquets of flowers labeled Visit of Prince Henry, Christening by Miss Roosevelt, and Yacht built in America

The Imperturbable Nymph by Prynne
A naked nymph perches on a hillside eating an apple, unmoved by the jewels offered by a powdered and be-wigged 18th century in a frock coat. Date: 1927

Mabels lovers: the suprised suitor. Motion picture poster for Mabels Lovers; the Suprised Suitor shows Mabel Normand and others in a scene from the film. Date 1912

A Case of Encirclement by Hookway Cowles
An attractive woman in a glamorous pink evening dress is surrounded by male admirers at a party. Date: 1939

A Flutter in the Boudoir by A. K. Macdonald. An elegant late 18th century lady wearing the tiniest of outfits is warned of the imminent arrival of a youthful-looking male suitor

Tatler front cover, February 1960
Front cover of The Tatler, February 1960, Debutantes and Brides Number showing a pleased looking girl offering a perfectly manicured hand to a suitor with a large ring. Date: 1960

Mary attracts the chaps
Now Mary was a plain girl, Of Lovers she had few; She donned the Harem skirt and now She doesn t know what to do!

Two lovers in the fields by Florence Hardy
A young girl gazes sadly at a bouquet of flowers, while her suitor, a farmboy, walks beside her

For You I Would Wait Forever by Florence Hardy
A Dutch girl prepares herself at the bedroom mirror while her young suitor waits at the door

The Ambush
A suitor greets a young woman in a clearing. Illustration by Charles Robinson

A Fantasy by Edwin Morrow
A young woman imagines a rich suitor in her hands, and thinks, " He loves me, he loves me not..." as coins and money notes fall to the ground instead of petals

The First Advance
A bashful monkey suitor offers his equally coy sweetheart a coconut in the romantic rituals that go on before marriage

Chinese Empress & Suitor
WU TSE-TIEN Chinese Empress shown in her yellow imperial robes. Also pictured is is a courtier of a later period, Jo-Fei (1103- 1141)

Pendennis as Suitor
Captain Costigan leaves his daughter Emily & her suitor, Master Arthur Pendennis to their own devices

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