Diry Collection (page 13)

London Dresses For February
The style of dresses being worn in London in February 1809. Engraved by Sands (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rainy Day Fashion
A woman wearing a carriage dress designed by Mrs Pierpoint with rows of bows down the front of the skirt and an ornate hat with flowers on the brim

Summer Promenade
A lady modelling a summer promenade dress designed by Miss Pierpoint, 1825. She is also wearing an ornate hat over a lace cap, and carries a furled parasol. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Party Dress
A woman in a long party dress decorated with fake flowers, with elbow-length gloves, circa 1818. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dress And Bonnet
A woman in a full-length coat with matching bonnet. Original publication: La Belle Assemblee, 1818. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Gentlemans Cloak
Two men in winter cloaks and top hats, circa 1825. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Promenading Outfit
A woman in a full-length promenade dress with bonnet and parasol accessories, circa 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Ball Gown By Pierpoint
A woman in a full-length ball gown, designed by Miss Pierpoint of Covent Garden, circa 1825. Original publication: The Ladys Magazine, 1825. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

French Fashion
A woman in a French-designed full-length dress and bonnet, circa 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Voila Les Anglais
An elegant English couple in Paris after the Napoleonic wars are mocked by grotesquely portrayed Parisians, circa 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Man About Paris
Gentlemens fashions from Paris, circa 1825. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

French Fop
An elegantly dressed French man, 1792. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Battle Of Corunna
A doctor treats the injured at the Battle of Corunna (A Coruna) in Galicia during the Napoleonic Wars, 16th January 1809. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Ruins Of Persepolis
The Gate of All Nations at Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, built in the 5th century BC by Xerxes, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Kerman Street
The city of Kerman in southeastern Iran, famed for its carpets and shawls, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Peking Market
The marketplace in Peking (modern Beijing), possibly during the lying-in-state of Dowager Empress Cixi (Tsu-Hsi), 1908. (Photo by Wood/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Asparagus Farming
A German peasant woman bends down to cut asparagus, circa 1930. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

National Skating Palace
The opening night at the National Skating Palace, London, 1884. The ice rink was in Regents Street on the site now occupied by the London Palladium. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Masquerade On Ice
A costume ball taking place at an ice-rink in Montreal, circa 1900. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Motor Show Delage
A two door fixed head coupe Delage type D8 N on the Delage stand at the Olympia Motor Show, October 1931, where the latest models from the French company are displayed

Lepers of Amsterdam
The procession of the lepers of Amsterdam in 1608. An engraving by Claes Jan Visscher. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Trichinipoly
The city of Trichinipoly (later Tiruchchirappalli or Tiruchirapalli) in southern India, circa 1866. In the background is the historical Rock Fort, containing 7th-century Pallava cave temples

Spiti
A tiny village perched on a rocky outcrop in Spiti, India, circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Morpeth Town
A view of Morpeth town in the Wansbeck Valley, Northumberland, the castle is on the left. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Albanian Mountain Man
An Albanian man in traditional dress from the mountain region near Ioannina (now part of Greece). He is armed with a rifle and pistols. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Testing The Water
Two Edwardian ladies hitch up their skirts and prepare for a paddle, August 1902. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Roman Medicine
An array of ancient Roman surgical instruments, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Theatre Des Celestins
circa 1930: The Theatre des Celestins in Lyon, opened in 1792. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

South Wraxall Manor House in Wiltshire, originally a 14th century hospice, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Flemish Weavers
Flemish weavers working in a shop in Manchester where they have settled, 1363. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Weaving Pair
Two fifteenth century textile weavers working on a loom, there is a large spider in a web above them, circa 1450. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Loom Weaving
A woman at work on a large loom, late sixteenth century. She is holding the shuttle in her hand and operating the loom with foot pedals. Original artist Crispin de Passe

Loom Worker
A man smoking a pipe while at work on a large loom during the eighteenth century. He is holding the shuttle in his hand and operating the machine with foot pedals

Turkish Woman
A Turkish woman wearing a yaskmak, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Turkish Woman
A Turkish woman reclines on a couch covered with embroidered throws, circa 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Westmorland Sheep
A shepherd with his Westmorland flock, circa 1930. (Photo by Walmsley Brothers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sheep Grazing
Sheep grazing in a field on Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire, mid 1950s. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Herculaneum Amphitheatre
Three views of the Roman theatre at Herculaneum, showing the proscenium (top), a cross section (centre) and the seating area (bottom). A French print by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, dated 1779

The Beauty Of Newhaven
Elizabeth Johnstone, the Beauty of Newhaven, 1848. A calotype by Adamson & Hill. (Photo by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

August Harvest
Harvesters in August, with a verse from Thomsons Autumn, circa 1880. An engraving by F Bartolozzi after a painting by William Hamilton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Boundary Ball Retrieved
A female spectator retrieves the ball after a boundary shot during a cricket match between the two public schools Eton and Harrow, 22nd July 1899

Shepherds Well in Londons Hampstead, one source of the River Tyburn, 1820. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fleet Ditch
Old Houses, with the Open Part of the Fleet Ditch, near Field Lane, 1851. The Fleet River, known as the Fleet Ditch, served as a sewer in old London. Engraving by John Wykeham Archer

Moray Place, Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Christchurch
The view from Colombo Square, Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Red Fort
The Lal Quila or Red Fort on the banks of Jamuna, in Delhi, India, circa 1900. The fort was built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan between 1638 and 1648

Hall of Public Audiences
The Diwan-i-Am, or Hall of Public Audiences, in the Lal Quila or Red Fort in Delhi, India, circa 1900. The fort was built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan between 1638 and 1648

House Of Nobles
A ball at the Nobles Club in St Petersburg, circa 1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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