Ladies' dress mb-height 3175 Portrait of Girolamo Bernerio (1540-1611)

Portrait of Girolamo Bernerio (1540-1611) Bishop of Ascoli Piceno

Polish cochineal [Porphyrophora polonica] or carmine scales

Facsimile copy of a 15th century manuscript of the German School

King George V (1865-1936) visiting the British Expeditionary France during the Battle of the Somme

Chardin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1682

Ladies' dress mb-height 3175 Portrait of Girolamo Bernerio (1540-1611)Ladies' dress, 14th century, (1910). Costume from the second period (c1350 1360) of the reign of Edward III (ruled 1327 1377), showing vertical pockets, and giving an idea of the length of the tippet. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).