Upper Collection (page 71)

Girls Camping 1930S
Four girls preparing a meal around the camp fire at Boxhill, Surrey, England

Relaxed Read 1893
A young man, with his upper body propped up on cushions on a day bed, rests his feet up on a ledge in order to create the perfect reading posture

Mongoose (Bewick)
The lower creature is the lemur mongooz : the upper the TAILLESS MACAUCO - lemur tardigradus - who spends its life envying the mongoose its tail : both live in India

Green Monkey (Bewick)
simis sabaea : Buffon calls it the CALLITRICHE. The hair on the upper body is green, the underside silver. It lives on the Cape Verde islands and parts of North Africa

Up Vesuvius by Rail
Negotiating the lava flow on the upper slopes of Vesuvius was an exhausting business until this funicular was constructed in the 1880s, commemorated in popular song

Hungarian Countryside
Fields in the hay season in Upper Hungary

Prehistoric Commerce
Inhabitants of Hallstadt, in Upper Austria, engaged in manufacture and trade

Social / Leaving Theatre
People in evening dress leaving His Majestys Theatre, in the Haymarket, London

Dinner party in an aristocratic French home
An elegant dinner party in an aristocratic French home

Aristocratic French lady receives morning visitors
An aristocratic French lady receives visitors while she completes her morning toilet

Music making in an aristocratic home, with violin, cello, spinet and singer

Fashionable people in the Row, Hyde Park, London
Fashionable riders and strollers in the Row, Hyde Park, Central London

Wedding Dress 1840
A young bride about to sign the register wears a dress with 3 lace edged flounces, pointed waist, bell shaped upper sleeves worn over a tightfitting under sleeve

People dancing the Cotillion in a London ballroom
People dancing the Cotillion in a fashionable London ballroom

Oxford Circus from Upper Regent Street, London
View of Oxford Circus from Upper Regent Street, Central London

Vaccination party in Philadelphia, USA
Fashionable Philadelphians are vaccinated at a party

A family at home, gathered round the piano
A family enjoying a cosy evening at home, gathered round the piano

Fashionable aristocratic ladies after dinner
Fashionable aristocratic ladies waiting for their fashionable menfolk to finish their port and cigars after dinner

Entertaining a visitor to afternoon tea
A lady entertains a visitor to afternoon tea in a lush interior. The maid stands ready to pour more tea or offer a plate of food

Ladies in a conservatory
Four elegant ladies and a child in a large conservatory (or greenhouse). They are tending plants and one of them is consulting a large book

Casanova meeting the Duchess of Northumberland
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) is introduced to the Duchess of Northumberland by Lady Harrington

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