Tights Collection (page 5)

Guards, costume design for Shakespeares play, Henry VIII, 19th century. A 19th-century costume design, showing guards in slashed hose blowing trumpets bearing a cardinals standard

Prince George and Mary of Teck in fancy dress, Devonshire House Ball, 1897. The future King George V with his wife in Elizabethan costume

Othello and Iago, 1891. Characters from The Moor of Venice. A colour lithograph from Shakespeares Heroes and Heroines after Sir A Callcott, C R Leslie, D Maclise, A Redgrave,s Hart & C

Henry IV Costume, (1885). Henry was king of France from 1589 to 1610. Illustration from 18th Century Institutions, Usages And Costumes, France 1700-1789, by Paul Lacroix, (Paris, 1885)

The Grand Dignitaries Of The Coronation, (1885). Artist: Charpentier
The Grand Dignitaries Of The Coronation, (1885). Illustration from 18th Century Institutions, Usages And Costumes, France 1700-1789, by Paul Lacroix, (Paris, 1885)

The Duke of Gesvres, (1885). Artist: G E Petit
The Duke of Gesvres, (1885). An 18th-century duke dressed in the costume of pageantry, after an original portrait by L M Van Loo

German musicians, 16th century, (1870). Artist: Jost Amman
German musicians, 16th century, (1870). A wood engraving of musicians playing on the violin and bass viol. A wood engraving from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

Male costume, 16th century, (1910). A citizen of the better class wearing a mandevile a sort of waistcoat fitted loosely round the body, with no sleeves

Steward and serving men, 15th century, (1910). The steward has a rod of office. He and his men wear pied hose and sugar-loaf caps

Early Norman stockings and boots, (1910). Footwear dating from the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910)

Heralds announcing the death of Charles VI to his son, c1500, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
Heralds announcing the death of Charles VI to his son, c1500, (1843). Heralds carrying the pennon or banner of France, announce the death of King Charles (1368-1422)

Edward, Prince of Wales as a Knight of the Garter, early 20th century
King Edward VIII when Prince of Wales, wearing his robes as a Knight of the Garter, early 20th century. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury

Sir Walter Raleigh and his son, 1602, (1896). English writer, poet, courtier and explorer, Raleigh (1554-1618) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585

Portrait of a young man, c1590-1595, (1896). Artist: Isaac Oliver I
Portrait of a young man, c1590-1595, (1896). Portrait, previously believed to have been of Sir Philip Sidney. Illustration after a miniature in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle

The Healing of Blind Man of Jericho, Detail, 1531. Artist: Lucas van Leyden
The Healing of Blind Man of Jericho, Detail, 1531. Located in the collection at, State Hermitage Museum, St Peterburg

The English being chased out of Paris, April 1436, (1484). The taking of Paris. Illustration from the Vigils of Charles VII by Martial of Paris, in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Two men with coats of arms, 16th century. Two Germans wearing slashed sleeves and parti-coloured hose, with heraldic crests

Table Service of a Lady of Quality, 15th century
Table Service of a Lady of Quality ; French noblewoman dining with members of her household, 15th century. The noblewoman is being waited on by servants and a butler wearing tunic

Intartenimento che dano ogni giorno li Ciarlatani in Piazza di S. Marco al Populo... ca
Intartenimento che dano ogni giorno li Ciarlatani in Piazza di S. Marco al Populo, d ogni natione che mattina e sera ordinariamente, ui concore

The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine. n. d. Creator: Albrecht Durer
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine.n.d

Villain, thou diest: plate 10 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 1), etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Standard Bearer and Drummer, 1544. Creator: Sebald Beham
Standard Bearer and Drummer, 1544

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