Women Collection

The Suffragette that knew Jiu-Jitsu - The Arrest. A crowd of terrified Policemen look on in trepidation at a lone suffragette, her sleeves rolled up, ready to take on all-comers

Ares and Aphrodite. Greek art
Votive relief dedicated to Ares and Aphrodite. 5th c.BC. Classical Greek art. Relief on marble. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Archaeological Museum

Suffragette Cat Scratch and Fight Police. Cat with Votes for Women sign around its neck proclaims, I m a catty suffragette, I scratch and fight the P lice, so long as they withhold the vote

Joan Bakewell with her two children 1969
Joan Bakewell photographed with her two children; Harriet and Matthew. Bakewell was a well known female figure of British television, famous partly for controversial

Advert, Four Famous Singers
Advertisement for the Singer Sewing Machine - Four Famous Singers - Adelina Patti, Christina Nilsson, Emma Albani and the sewing machine! circa 1895

Woman outside Golders Green underground station, London. The bus, destination Hendon, carries an advertisement: You Can t Beat Harrods. 1921

Family on holiday in Cornwall
A mother and her children on holiday in a seaside town in Cornwall. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1952

A Star Explodes - Norman Lindsay
A Star Explodes by Norman Lindsay Date: 1932

Suffragette Board Game PANK-A-SQUITH
A suffragette board game called Pank-A-Squith which was first advertised in the pages of Votes for Women, October 1909. It was described as a highly artistic TABLE GAME that helps to spread

First women barristers, 1921
The first women barristers, 1921. Miss Fay Kyle is pictured on the left, with Miss A.K.S Deverell. Date: 1921

Michelangelo (1475-1564). Sistine Chapel. The Last Judgement. 1537-1541. VATICAN CITY. Vatican Palaces. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Fresco

Yardley advertisement, 1962
Advertisement for the Lavender range of fragrances and bathroom products by Yardley, featuring an illustration of a pensive woman with large doe eyes. Date: 1962

VERMEER, Johannes (1632-1675). View on Delft. 1660 - 1661. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. NETHERLANDS. The Hague. Mauritshuis

The It Girl by George Whitelaw
Colour illustration showing an attractive socialite surrounded by attentive gentlemen

Marimekko hat, 1965
A cotton hat with a cutaway brim by Marimekko in a print of pink and green circles. Date: 1965

Blue Dress / Beer 1922
Blue dress by Beer: low neckline, open to the hips at the side & worn over a grey slip. Bodice & low waistband decorated in a feather motif plus a bandeau & earrings

WOMEN BATHING / 1906
Two female bathers are watched by a group of men. Date: 1906

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, detail of mural, 1947-1948. MEXICO. Mexico City. Diego Rivera Web Museum. Central detail. Fresco on portable pannels

Suffragette Rally Womens Sunday Programme 1908. Official programme & souvenir of the Votes for Women Demonstration, 21st June 1908

Miss Richmond and her deerhounds
Miss M. Richmond of the Warren, nearly Henley-on-Thames, pictured with her Bridge Sollers deerhounds, the largest kennel of the ancient breed at the time

Harvey Nichols advertisement, 1953
Two friends, wearing extremely similar check cotton dresses in Horrockses fabric, share a joke. Date: 1953

Ju-Jitsu suffragette
If you want to earn some time throw a policeman! The Ju-Jitsu suffragette shows how a policeman may be tackled. Mrs Garrud, the well-known suffragette

Three young Victorian women baring their bottoms, circa 1894. circa 1894

Advert for Horlicks malted milk 1916
Woman in World War One workshop, drinking the nourishing food-drink Horlicks Malted Milk. Date: 1916

Birth of Venus. Alessandro (Sandro) Botticelli
BOTTICELLI, Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi, also called Sandro (1445-1510). The Birth of Venus. ca. 1485. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Oil on wood

Art Deco lady with lipstick
Striking illustration showing a lady wearing a dramatic black hat with veil, together with red beads and a flamboyant turned up collar, about to apply vivid red lipstick

Dior dress and Fath suit, 1954
A dress in diaphanous floral chiffon with a 3D rose at the shoulder and a leather belt at the waist by Christian Dior. On the right is the braced silhouette of a tweed suit by Fath with vertical

The Blue Stocking, by Reginald Higgins
A colour illustration showing a lady perched on library steps reading a book. The picture is entitled The Bluestocking, a term traditionally applied to academic women

Japan - Geisha - See no evil, Hear no evil, speak no evil
Japan - Three Geisha girls - miming the phrase See no evil, Hear no evil, speak no evil. Date: circa 1904

HAITI. Port-au-Prince. Haitian market scene. Naive art. Fresco

Michelangelo (1475-1564). Pieta. 1498-1499. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Sculpture on marble. VATICAN CITY. Saint Peters Basilica

Rolex wrist watches advertisement

Womens Institute activities during the First World War, making jam and wicker baskets to help with the war effort. 1915

Kayser Bondor Nylons advertisement
Elegant advert for Kayser Nylon stockings showing a woman raising a sumptuous cloak to reveal her shapely legs and the tops of her stockings

Off with the Old, On with the New by David Wright, showing a model taking off her uniform. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Hares and Graces by Harry Woolley
A glamorous looking young woman in a yellow dress and hat walks her champion greyhounds around the track before a race at a greyhound racing stadium

Archery / Women / Face On
Ladies at an archery meeting

Choctaw Indian Princess, Oklahoma, USA
Choctaw Indian Princess in traditional costume, Oklahoma, USA. Date: 1946

Suffragette W. S. P. U Badge and Ribbon
A circular tin badge with green border, white centre and purple lettering - W.S.P.U Votes for Women. Attatched to the badge is a piece of purple, white and green satin ribbon. Date: circa 1908

Suffragette Pankhurst Manchester Docks. Mrs. Pankhurst stands in the dock, resplendent in picture hat and votes for women sash. A reference to the fact that the Pankhursts hailed from Manchester

Suffragette Cat in Straw Hat Votes for Women. Cat in a straw hat, placed at a jaunty angle, wears a large placard which reads, Votes for Women Date: circa 1908

Nude pin-up by David Wright
Pin-up by David Wright, almost entirely nude, save for a pair of high heeled shoes and a book she has been reading placed strategically in her lap. c.1945

Kayser Bondor advertisement
Advert for Kayser Bondor nylon stockings featuring the fabulous legs of a lady, revealed under a fluttering skirt

Fashions for 1954
On the left, a caramel coloured restaurant suit in heavy silk shantung, its melting shoulder line, vertically seamed jacket, slanting pockets " are all allies for your pleasant evening"

Hartnell ballgown
An evening dress designed by Norman Hartnell in full-skirted organza glittered with love knots

Miners Coming to Work
Welsh men and women mineworkers coming to work in the early morning

Lady Teeing Off
Ladies on a golf course

Polish poster for a film, The Warsaw Mermaid, directed by Tadeusz Makarczynski, based on a local legend. 1956

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