Images Dated 4th August 2016

Christmas card, Shakespearean jesters

Christmas Card - May you be merry and lack nothing (based on a quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2) - two medieval jesters dancing.
circa 1935

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1930s, 1935, 30s, Card, Christmas, Dance, Dancer, Dancers, Dancing, Enjoyment, Fun, Happy, Henry, Iv, Jester, Jesters, Lack, Medieval, Merry, Part, People, Shakespeare, Snow, Thirties, Watching, Xmas

Traditional costume of Rolleville, northern France

Woman wearing a traditional costume of Rolleville, Normandy, northern France.
circa 1830

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1830s, Blue, Costume, Countryside, De, Dress, Elaborate, France, French, Grass, Green, Headdress, Lace, Lacy, Local, Normandy, Northern, Profile, Red, Rolleville, Rural, Traditional, Trees, White, Woman, Women

Constance Gordon-Cumming, travel writer and painter

Constance Frederica (Eka) Gordon Cumming (1837-1924), travel writer and painter, seen here wearing a hat of the Queen of Tahiti, a place she visited in 1878.
circa 1878

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1870s, 1878, British, Constance, Cumming, Eka, Frederica, Gordon, Handwriting, Hat, Hats, Painter, Profile, Queen, Scottish, Signature, Signed, Tahiti, Travel, Victorian, Wearing, Woman, Women, Writer