Coat Collection (#93)

Hackney Coachman, 1897. Creator: John Leech
Hackney Coachman, 1897. Caricature of a London jarvey or jarvie, the driver of a 19th-century hackney coach. This was a hireable vehicle with two horses and six seats

Country Dress: Robert Child, Esq. 1772, (1948). Creator: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Country Dress: Robert Child, Esq. 1772, (1948). From " English Fashion", by Alison Settle. [Collins, London, 1948]

Travelling By Air, September 1934, (1945). Creator: Unknown
Travelling By Air, September 1934, (1945). British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and his wife Clementine (1880-1977)

47th Division March Past, 1918, (1945). Creator: Unknown
47th Division March Past, 1918, (1945). British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) at the Grand Place in Lille, France

Churchill as an Airman, c1945. Creator: Unknown
Churchill as an Airman, c1945. British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) in an RAF greatcoat. Churchill learned to fly and once crashed his plane but escaped unhurt

Behind the Lines, France, 1916, (1945). Creator: Unknown
Behind the Lines, France, 1916, (1945). British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) as a colonel on the Western Front during the First World War

Woman in duster coat and pointed hat, c1952. Creator: Shirley Markham
Woman in duster coat and pointed hat, c1952. Fashion illustration. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Seated man in duffel coat, c1952. Creator: Shirley Markham
Seated man in duffel coat, c1952. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Woman in olive coat, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
Woman in olive coat, c1950. Fashion illustration. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Woman in green coat, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
Woman in green coat, c1950. Fashion illustration. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Woman in duster coat, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
Woman in duster coat, c1950. Fashion illustration. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Christening Group possibly at J Samuel White and Co shipyard, Cowes, Isle of Wight, c1930s

Christening Group possibly for the Yugoslavian Bakar, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 1931
Christening Group possibly for the Yugoslavian Bakar, J Samuel White and Co shipyard, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 10 Jan 1931

Christening Group for the Yugoslavian Bakar, J Samuel White and Co, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 1931
Christening Group for the Yugoslavian Bakar, J Samuel White and Co shipyard, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 10 Jan 1931

Prince George and Queen Mary aboard HMY Victoria and Albert, c1933. Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942) and his mother Queen Mary (1867-1953) on board the royal yacht

Queen Mary aboard HMY Victoria and Albert, 1935. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Queen Mary aboard HMY Victoria and Albert, 1935. Queen Mary (1867-1953) on board the royal yacht. HMY Victoria and Albert, launched in 1899, was a steamship used by the royal family

Possibly the launch of the Yugoslavian Bakar, J Samuel White and Co, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 1931
Possibly the launch of the Yugoslavian Bakar, J Samuel White and Co shipyard, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 10 Jan 1931

Queen Mary and Prince Henry aboard HMY Victoria and Albert, c1933. Queen Mary (1867-1953) and her son Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) on board the royal yacht

Queen Mary aboard HMY Victoria and Albert, 1933. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Queen Mary aboard HMY Victoria and Albert, 1933. Queen Mary (1867-1953) on board the royal yacht. HMY Victoria and Albert, launched in 1899, was a steamship used by the royal family

Musicians from Hroznova Lhota: clarinet, violin and double bass. (1861-1940), 1948. From Musical Instruments Through the Ages, by Dr. Alexander Buchner. [Spring Books, London, 1948]

The lost boys, c1905. Transfer-printed glass slide from a boxed set of twenty-four, depicting scenes from Peter Pan by JM Barrie (1860-1937). From Coloured Lantern Slides - The Story of Peter Pan

Knights of the Compagnia della Calza, responsible for organizing festivals such as Carnival, color engraving 1870

Hair dressing class for men at the Bromley Non-Residential Training Centre, London, 1934
Hair dressing class for men at the Bromley Non-Residential Training Centre, Bromley by Bow, London, 1934. Men training to be barbers, with a row of chairs and mirrors at one end of the room

Winter Fashions from November 1834 to April 1835, 1834. Artist
Winter Fashions from November 1834 to April 1835, 1834.View of figures wearing winter fashions in the Pantheon, on Oxford Street, Westminster, London

Winter Fashions from November 1833 to April 1834, 1833. View of figures wearing winter fashions in the Queens Bazaar, on Oxford Street, Westminster, London

Summer Fashions for 1838, c1838. Fashions for the summer season displayed on figures in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire. In the centre Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington exercise on horseback

Summer Fashions for 1841, c1841. Finely dressed men, women and children parade in front of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, displaying the latest summer fashions

Characteristic sketches of the London club houses : The Elephants, 1829. Artist
Characteristic sketches of the London club houses : The Elephants, 1829. Scene showing two members of the Athenaeum on Pall Mall, looking at a woman passing by

Auction rooms at Aldridges Horse Repository, St Martins Lane, Westminster, London, 1824
Interior view of the auction rooms at Aldridges Horse Repository, St Martins Lane, Westminster, London, 1824

Tattersalls horse sale yard, Hyde Park Corner, Westminster, London, c1850. The buildings were demolished in 1865 and a new wing for St Georges Hospital was built on the site

Interior view of Sir John Spencers room in Canonbury House, Islington, London, 1887. Sir John Spencer was a wealthy clothworker and London alderman who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1594

Georgey a cock-horse, 1851. View of the corner of lower Grosvenor Street, Westminster, London, showing the entrance to the Mount coffee house

View of Tattersalls horse sale yard at Hyde Park Corner, Westminster, London, c1845. The buildings were demolished in 1865 and a new wing for St Georges Hospital was built on the site

The Devil Reproving Sin, 1804. Three gentlemen sit smoking and drinking in one of the boxes of a tea-garden (White Conduit House?). A waiter on the right draws a cork from a bottle

All Bond Street trembled as he strode, 1802. Artist: James Gillray
All Bond Street trembled as he strode, 1802. Showing a young man walking with an unseeing stare diagonally towards the spectator

One of the Lions - or the living statue at the London Museum, 1817. A guide to Bullocks Museum, a corpulent man wearing a top hat and carrying a staff

The civic chair - or - John Lumps progress in City honors, c1815. Six scenes with verse below of the stages of John Lumps career

The Grand Turk, Mahomed Caratha, at the New Wells, (Islington Spa), London, c1780. Mahomed Caratha was an equilibrist

View of a street fight scene at night, City of Westminster, London, 1822. The scene shows an affray between three fashionably dressed men and two watchmen who use bludgeons

Edward VI, King of England, c1552, (1793). Artist: Francesco Bartolozzi
Edward VI, King of England, c1552, (1793). King Edward VI is wearing a flat cap with a feather and a loose coat with fur collar over a tunic

Political candour - i. e. Coalition resolutions of June 14th 1805
Political candour - i.e. Coalition resolutions of June 14th 1805.... Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons. Pitt sits alone on the Treasury Bench

A slap at the Charleys or a Tom & Jerry lark, vide New Poliece Bill, 1829 Artist
A slap at the Charleys or a Tom & Jerry lark, vide New Poliece Bill, 1829. Showing Sir Robert Peel (Jerry) putting to flight a band of elderly nightwatchmen

Interior view of St Pauls Cathedral when Richard Hunne was hanged, London, 1514
Interior view of St Pauls Cathedral when Richard Hunne was hanged as a heretic, London, 1514

Johnsons Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London, 1819
Interior view of Johnsons Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School in the Strand, Westminster, London, 1819. Fashionably dressed men riding hobby horses at a riding school at 337 Strand, London

Sir Kenelm Digby, 1825. Artist: R Cooper
Sir Kenelm Digby, 1825. Taken from the original by Van Dyke in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford, wearing a coat with broad ribbon over his left shoulder and right hand raised to his breast

A Princely Ambassador, 1822. Artist: Richard Dighton
A Princely Ambassador, 1822. Full-lenght portrait of Prince Paul Anthony Esterhazy in profile, wearing a top hat, frock coat and carrying a goad in his right hand

View of a letter carrier, 1866

The Old Soldier remarkable for constant attendance at St Paul s, c1760. Artist
The Old Soldier remarkable for constant attendance at St Paul s, c1760. Showing the dome of St Pauls Cathedral, just visible over the buildings to the right

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