Vanity Collection (page 3)

A French barber puts his male client's hair into curling papers Date: 1840

DRYDEN/MAKE-UP CHECK/1
The final version of the Die Dame front cover for November 1928. A woman checks her appearance in her hand mirror. Date: November 1928

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853 - 1931), writer. Date: 1896

Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR ALFRED DOWNING FRIPP (1865 - 1930), surgeon at Guys Hospital, London. Appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and to his successor King George V

Apparatus for the Removal of the Double Chin 1927
Fashionable beauty parlour, a Parisian lady wearing a special mask to achieve a Cameosque profile. Date: 1927

Assist the Remedies of Nature 1933
Removal superfluous hair: A warm mixture paraffin and shellac applied to the ladies eyebrows and peeled off a few minutes later. Date: 1933

Apparatus that Assist the Remedies of Nature 1933
A cure for facial blemishes: The Siemens-Reinger apparatus, treatment by the means of X-rays anything from tiny warl to a widespread skin disease. Date: 1933

Pretty Young Lady
Youth and Vanity. Portrait of a smartly dressed young Edwardian lady. Artist: Ethel C Brisley Date: 1910

Sir Max Pemberton (1863 - 1950), popular British novelist, mainly of adventure and mystery stories. Pictured at a desk in the study of him at Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead

Cartoon, A Dress Rehearsal (John Bright)
Cartoon, A Dress Rehearsal -- a satirical comment on the radical Liberal MP John Brights expectation that he might obtain a Cabinet position in the next Liberal government

London health club 1926
A group of Hippodrome women from Mercenary Mary enjoying a sun bath, opened in Albemarle Street, London Date: 1926

Advert for Dolland & Co rimless spectacles 1908
Fairy eyeglasses, dainty, light, comfortable and rimless specs. 1908

Walpole House, Chiswick Mall, originally the home of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II, and the inspiration for Miss Pinkertons Academy in Thackerays Vanity Fair

Masai women of East Africa looking in a mirror
Masai (Msai) women of Southern Kenya or Northern Tanzania (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. Seen here admiring their own reflections in a mirror. Date: 1922

Woman in an oversized hat on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1870s

Vain woman at a mirror on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1870s

Advert for Eugene permanent wavy hair 1937
Ordinary waves can look so ordinary! Date: 1937

Charles Ernest Nicholson - British yacht designer
Charles Ernest Nicholson (1868-1954) - British yacht designer - He is the one designer - the artist is known only by the pseudonym OWL. Date: 1913

Little Miss Vanity - Hand-tinted postcard depicting google-eyed girl in front of the mirror dolling herself up. Date: circa 1920

Advert for Mappin & Webb luxury items 1916
Varity of sterling silver luxury Christmas gifts for the homefront. 1916

WILLIAM ALEXANDER LOUIS STEPHEN DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, 12th Duke of HAMILTON, 9th Duke of Brandon, 2nd Duke of Chatellerault (1845-1895) Scottish nobleman and son to Princess Marie of Baden

Charles Robert Spencer, sixth Earl Spencer (1857 - 1922), before that Viscount Althorp until he succeeded to the title in 1910, British courtier and Liberal politician

Clare Sewell Read
Date: 1875

William Pirrie
William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, (1847 - 1924), leading Irish shipbuilder, partner and later chairman of Harland & Wolff, who built Titanic. Caption: Harland & Wolff. Date: 1903

Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland
Date: 1884

Valentine Browne
Date: 1881

John Blundell Maple
Date: 1891

Victor Bulwer-Lytton
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Hugh Cecil Lea (1869 - 1926), British Liberal Party politician and newspaper proprietor. Caption: East St. Pancras. Date: 1907

Rainald Knightley
Date: 1881

Frederick Knight
Date: 1884

William Hay
Date: 1874

John Hubbard
Date: 1884

Sir Arthur Helps, Vanity Fair, Ape
SIR ARTHUR HELPS (1813-1875) English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1860 to 1875) Caption: Council Date: 1874

Edmund Hammond, Vanity Fair, Ape
EDMUND HAMMOND, 1st Baron Hammond of Kirkella (1802-1890) British diplomat and civil servant, serving as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1854 to 1873

Frederick S. A. Hanbury-Tracy, Vanity Fair, Spy
FREDERICK STEPHEN ARCHIBALD HANBURY-TRACY (1848-1906), British Liberal Party politician and Member of Parliament for Montgomery from 1877 to 1885, and again from 1886 to 1892

Algernon W. F. Greville, Vanity Fair, Spy
ALGERNON WILLIAM FULKE GREVILLE, 2nd Baron Greville (1841-1909) British Liberal politician, Member of Parliament for Westmeath, Ireland (1865-1874)

Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR ALFRED DOWNING FRIPP (1865 - 1930) Surgeon at Guys Hospital, London. Appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and to his successor King George V

Sir Charles Forster, Vanity Fair, Ape
SIR CHARLES FORSTER, 1st Baronet (1815-1891) English Liberal politician and MP for Walsall. Sat in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1891. Caption: An Amateur Whip Date: 1815 - 1891

Capt. the Hon. Henry Denison, Vanity Fair, WH
Captain the Hon. HENRY DENISON (Born 1849) Captain in the Royal Horse Artillery. Friend of King Edward VII. Caption Captain the Hon Henry Denison Date: 1912

Edmond G. Petty-Fitzmaurice, Vanity Fair, Spy
EDMOND GEORGE PETTY-FITZMAURICE, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846-1935) Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906. British Liberal politician and Member of Parliament for Calne from 1868 to 1885

5th Earl of Donoughmore, Vanity Fair, Spy
JOHN LUKE GEORGE HELY-HUTCHINSON, 5th Earl of Donoughmore (1848-1900) Assistant Commissioner for the European Commission for the Organization of Eastern Roumelia between 1878 and 1879

Sir Douglas F. R. Dawson, Vanity Fair, Spy in 1903
SIR DOUGLAS FREDERICK RAWDON DAWSON (1854-1933) British Army officer. Caption: A Military Secretary Date: 1854 - 1933

Colonel George E. Gouraud, Vanity Fair, Ape
Colonel GEORGE EDWARD GOURAUD (1841-1912) American Civil War soldier who later acted as agent for Thomas Edison, introducing the new Edison Phonograph cylinder audio recording technology to England

Charles J. Colville, Vanity Fair, Spy
CHARLES JOHN COLVILLE, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross (1818-1903) The Lord Colville of Culross between 1849 and 1885. British nobleman, politician and courtier

Thomas Collins MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
THOMAS COLLINS MP (d.1884) British Conservative Member of Parliament for Knaresborough. Caption: Noisy Tom Date: died 1884

Sir R Bulkeley, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR RICHARD HENRY WILLIAMS-BULKELEY, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey (1862-1942). Yachtsman, born in London, educated at Eton, lived in Beaumaris, Wales

William C. Cartwright MP, Vanity Fair, WH
WILLIAM CORNWALLIS CARTWRIGHT (1825-1915) Art collector, author and a Liberal politician. An authority on ancient and medieval art and literature

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