Upper Class Gallery

'Sir H. Sloane', (1660-1753), 1830. Creator: Unknown

'Sir H. Sloane', (1660-1753), 1830. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) Irish physician, naturalist and collector whose donations founded the British Museum, British Library and Natural History Museums in London. Elected to the Royal College of Physicians by age 27 he travelled to Jamaica, witnessed cruelty to slaves and discovered cocoa. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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'St. James's Street', 18th century, (1925). Creator: Unknown

'St. James's Street', 18th century, (1925). Engraving after Plate 4 of William Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress' of 1735, 'Arrested for Debt'. The rake, Tom Rakewell, is stopped as he alights from his sedan chair. On the left is a Bow Street officer. The scene is St James's Street, looking towards St James's Palace from the King Street junction in London. From "London in the Eighteenth Century", by Sir Walter Besant. [A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1925]

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Dancing the Charleston, from 'White Bottoms' pub. 1927

One gentleman in black tie, a further gentleman in white tie and tails, and a woman in a light green flapper dress and pearls dance the Charleston, from 'White Bottoms' pub. 1927,(colour block print)

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1920s, 20th Century, Black Bottom, Black Tie, Caricature, Charleston, Colour, Colour Block Print, Excess, Female, Flapper, Flapper Dress, Gentleman, Gentlemen, High Society, Historica Graphica Collection, Illustration, Jazz, Jazz Age, Joy, Lady, Male, Men, Musician, Paris, Parisian, Pearls, Sem Georges Goursat 18631934, Sem Georges Goursat 1863–1934, Tails, Trumpet, Upper Class, White Tie, Woman