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Arab Girl DancingA Middle Eastern Belly Dancer dancing with a veil to musical accompaniment
Mary, Queen of ScotsMary, Queen of Scotland -- the inscription below reads Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Widow of Francois II, King of France. The portrait shows her in mourning dress
Mary Queen of Scotland (1542-1567)Mary (1542-1587). Queen of Scotland (1542-1567). CLOUET, Francois (1505-1573). Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. OE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Musue Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)
Semi-veiled woman at Muscat, Oman
Veiled Egyptian Woman - Cairo. Date: circa 1910s
Pyramus & ThisbeBabylonian maiden Thisbe has assignation with Pyramus but flees from lion; he finds her bloody veil, cries Can this be Thisbe ? stabs him- self, she arrives, does same
Art Deco WeddingFashion design for an elegant wedding group. The brides dress is made from white brocade and satin. Bridesmaid wears a grey trimmed dress as does a wedding guest
Camille Bos, ballet dancer, rehearsing La GrisiMademoiselle Camille Bos, ballet dancer at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse, rehearsing La Grisi
Khadidja, Exotic Dancer with Veil - AlgeriaKhadidja, Exotic Dancer with Veil (barely!) - Algeria. Date: circa 1910s
Princess Sophie of Greece on her wedding dayPrincess Sophie of Greece (1914-2001), elder sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on her wedding day when she married Prince Christoph of Hesse-Cassel, 15th December 1930
Queen Victoria holding a fan Date: circa 1900
Queen Elizabeth II visits the VaticanQueen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh with Pope John XXIII in the throne room of the Vatican, the meeting coming at the end of a three day State visit to Rome in 1961. Date: 1961
George Ernest Studdy, Got Im! Bonzo is delighted on the occasion of his owners marriage. Originally published as Valentine postcard no. 347. Date: circa 1920
Tatler front cover, 1958Front cover of The Tatler for April 1958 featuring a model wearing a hat, or Easter bonnet, by French designer Pierre Cardin, using yards of wide-mesh net, swathed on a white
Funny Saucy Wedding PostcardBawdy humourin this saucy postcard, depicting a bride and grrom in front of their vicar. The bride has her hand full... "...to have and to hold - until death us do part..." Date: circa 1910s
Royal Wedding 1934 - brides dress and Trent ParkPage from the Illustrated London News showing the wedding dress of Princess Marina of Greece on display alongside the wedding presents at St. Jamess Palace
The Red Shoes -- a young girl dressed in white for her confirmation looks at her reflection in a large oval mirror. Rather daringly, she is wearing red shoes! early 20th century
Miss Mary Churchill announces her engagement, 1946Miss Mary Churchill(b. 1922), Mr. Winston Churchills youngest daughter, announced her engagement on the day this photograph was taken of her, attending the wedding of Lord Burhams daughter, the Hon
Mediaeval HeaddressesMedieval ladies in their fancy headdress
Marie of Anjou, Queen of France, wife of King Charles VII. She wears a truncated hennin, jeweled necklace, and black velvet robe lined with ermine, crakows or poulaines
Marriage a la Mode, 1960sA fashionable, just married couple travel through central London in a horse drawn carriage. The bride is wearing a snood style veil and the groom is in top hat and tails. Date: 1960s
Bride and groom in a gondola, Malpas, CornwallBride and groom in a gondola, near the village of Malpas, on the Truro River, Cornwall -- they were on their way from the church to the reception. Date: circa 1960s
French fashion plate, lady sidesaddle on horseFrench fashion plate, lady sitting sidesaddle on a horse with a deerhound alongside. circa 1850s
Jewish high priest and kneeling Jewish woman with veil
Italian noble woman playing a harp, 14th century
Egyptian Lady of the HaremAn Egyptian Lady of the Harem, reclining on a couch and smoking a nargile pipe Date: 1910s
Veiled Turkish beauty looking into an oval mirrorVeiled Turkish Oriental Eastern beauty admiring herself in an oval mirror (set into an elegantly carved frame) in this stylish Studio Photograph aimed squarely at the Tourist market! Date: circa 1908
British and French Soldiers - SalonicaA scruffy young turkish paperboy selling the Paris Balkan Newspaper and the French Echo to British and French soldiers during World War One in Salonica as two veiled ladies and a Greek priest
Yosemite Valley--California: The Bridal Veil Fall
Woman and Turkish FlagsA veiled oriental beauty with pretty eyes set in a frame beneath two Turkish flags - patriotic postcard
Edwardian Blushing BrideA nervous looking Edwardian bride complete with veil and bouquet stands upon a Turkish carpet in order to be photographed, her long train draped over her arm
Emma Hamilton / Rehburg 2EMMA, LADY HAMILTON Wife of Lord Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, in one of her attitudes
Countess Howe DogLorna, Countess Howe, with her Griffon, Binkie
Princess Margaret on her wedding dayPrincess Margaret (1930-2002) on the day of her wedding to Anthony Armstrong-Jones (later Lord Snowdon) - 6th May 1960 - leaving for Westminster Abbey with her Father Prince Philip
pretty young Spanish Woman in traditional costumeHead and Shoulders Portrait photograph of a pretty young Spanish Woman in traditional costume dominsted by a high lace headdress (mantilla, worn over a high hair ornament called a peineta)
Lady presenting the prize of the tournament. Chromolithography by Regamey after Tournois du roi Rene, ca. 1489. Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance
Europe. 14th century. Lady and minstrel. Chromolithography. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume VI, 1885
History of France. 1400. Ladies and gentlemen of the nobility. Chromolithography. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume VI, 1885
History of France. 1400. From left to right: KnightHistory of France. 1400. From left to right, 13: Knight of the Golden Fleece, 14: princess, 15: bourgeois woman. Chromolithography. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume VI, 1885
Woman with a Black VeilPortrait of a black-veiled woman. Artist: Samuel Melton Fisher (1859-1939) Date: circa 1905
Charlotte of Prussia (1798-1860). Empress consort of Russia (1825-1855) as Alexandra Fyodorovna, by marriage to Tsar Nicholas I (1796-1855). Portrait. Drawing by C. Legrand. Lithography by J. Donon
Table service of a Lady of Quality. 19th-centuryTable service of a Lady of Quality. Chromolithography from a miniature of the Roman de Renaud de Montauban, 15th century manuscript
Noble lady and maid of honour accompanied by two bourgeois men wearing chaperon. 14th century. Engraving after a miniature in Merveilles du Monde
Dresses of noblewomen in the 11th century. EngravingDresses of noblewomen in the 11th century. Facsimile of an engraving based on a miniature from the Bible of Charles the Bald, 9th century
Two fashionable women on a winter stroll, WWI.. In two-piece belted wool suits, one with a veil over a hat, one holding a riding crop and handbag
Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart, Mary I of Scotland. 1542-1587. In hood, high ruff collar, veil, gown with ribbon. Maria Dei Gratia Scotorum Regina
Henrietta Maria, Mother Queene, 1609-1669. Queen of King Charles I of England. Youngest daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici
Young woman of Bogota, Colombia. She wears a black fringed saya (dress), fine mantilla shawl, and small black felt hat. Jeune fille de Bogota. Handcoloured woodcut by T.S
Noble Tuareg warrior of Agadez, Niger, in tagelmust (turban and veil), taktkat (shirt) and akarbey (pants). He carries a spear, tellak (dagger) and takouba (sword). Guerrier de Tuarick
Medieval woman in veil and long-sleeved dress, with chair. Civil costumes from Bible 10, Manuscripts in the Bibliotheque royale. Costumes civils (MSBR Bible No. 10)
Costumes of Frankish princesses and lords, 9th century. From the dedication page of the Bible of San Paolo fuori le mura, MS f.1.m, c.870, In the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
Statue of Saint Genevieve, (c.419-502), patron saint of Paris, in Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Paris. St. Genevieve, statue tiree du portail de l'eglise Saint Germain l'Auxerrois a Paris
Costume of a woman of Tripoli, 16th centuryCostume of a woman of Tripoli, Libya, Ottoman Empire, 16th century
Costume of an ancient noblewoman of Caramania, Ottoman Empire (Karman Province, Turkey). In a decorated mantle of fine cloth over a velvet robe, pearl collar, velvet headdress with veil
Costume of a noble African woman, 16th century. Blue or black cape over a colourful robe, gold necklace and bracelets with precious stones. Within a decorative frame engraved by H
Costume of an Ethiopian virgin, 16th century. In silk cape over long robe of silk or cotton, headdress of red or blue veil, pearl earrings. Within a decorative frame engraved by H
Turkish woman of lower status, Ottoman Empire, 16th century. She wears a velvet hat with veil, coat buttoned up to the neck, fine pantalons. Femme Turque de condition inferieure
Costume of a Vestal virgin or priestess of Vesta. She wears a stola robe, linen tunic and a suffibulum veil with a purple trim. Within a decorative frame engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann
Woman gardener of Chioggia, Venice, 16th century. Her hair is tied up with colorful silk ribbons apart from a few curls on her forehead
Saint Helena, mother of Constantine I the GreatSaint Helena, Roman empress, wife of Constantius I Chlorus, mother of Constantine I the Great, c.248 - 328
Briseis writing a love letter to AchillesBriseis wipes her tears with a handkerchief while writing a love letter to Achilles
Various French costumes of the 9th century, taken from manuscripts in Paris and Brussels. Women in veils with long gowns and bombarde sleeves, soldiers in Carolingian helmets with lance and buckler
Noble women and their maids, France, 15th century. Ladies in tall hennin with long veils, gowns with long trains, walk along a hall decorated with helms and heraldic banners
Three Flemish costumes, 15th century. Woman in hennin with veil and wimple, woman in bonnet and cracows, and man in chaperon and velvet coat with dagger
Esther pleading with her husband King Ahasuerus of PersiaJewish queen Esther or Hadassah pleading with her husband King Ahasuerus of Persia. Depicted in Italian fashions of the early 14th century. Esther implorant Assuerus pour les Juifs
Ladies of the 13th century. Woman in wimple and veil, long mantle and robe f.20v, seated woman in wimple over the ears f.25r, woman in long robe and wimple f.30r
Religious habits of the 15th century. Monks in cassocks and nun in veil, wimple and habit holding rosaries, Bibles and staffs
Noblewomen in hennin and veils, 15th and 16th centuriesLadies of rank of the 15th and 16th centuries and their headdresses satirized
Anglo Saxon women's costumes, 9th and 10th centuryAnglo Saxon woman in mantle, and woman wearing her veil crossed from Prudentius, Cotton MS Cleopatra C viii, and woman in a tunic with embroidered border from Gregory's Book of Job
Norman costumes of the 12th century
Norman women and girl, 12th centuryNorman ladies and girl, 12th century. Girls wore their hair without veils, separated at front and plaited artfully 136. Ladies in long robe and mantle, smaller veil tied under the chin 137, 138
Costume of Norman noblewomen, 12th centuryNorman noblewomen in frame decorated with mythical beasts
Norman women's dress of the 12th century. They wear long tunic robes, veils and wimples. Long sleeves terminating in a kind of pocket 131
A Norman queen wearing mantle, veil and crownA Norman queen wearing mantle fastened with large brooch, veil and wimple, and gold crown seated on a throne 128. The robes are bordered with gold embroidery
Norman noble women, 12th century. Norman noblewoman wearing mantle and veil 125, 126, and Norman woman in robe with her head uncovered 127. They stand in front of a curtained arch in a walled city
Norman preacher, monk and pilgrim, 11th century. Preacher from an original manuscript in clothes that only slightly resemble those of the clergy, holding a full purse 105
Blanche (d.1310) and Adele de Vermandois (944-975)Blanche (d.1310), daughter of Jean de Laon, knight and seigneur d'Atteinville 101
Constance of Arles 99 and unknown French queen 100. Constance of Arles, 986~1034, or Constance of Provence, was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France
Anglo Saxon women's costumes
Anglo Saxon women's summer and travel clothesAnglo Saxon woman in summer clothes with veil and mantle in different colours 39, and Anglo Saxon woman in travel clothes or winter clothes with very long sleeves 40
Anglo Saxon women's dressAnglo Saxon woman wearing a tunic, veil, mantle, and open-toe shoes 36, woman in tunic and veil 37 and woman in a veil in a different colour from her mantle 38
Anglo Saxon women's dress. One wearing tunic, mantle and veil 33, one in a floating veil 34, and one with tunic, belt and veil 35