2-981-924 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Notes at the Fancy-Dress Ball at Dublin Castle, 1876. Robinson Crusoe, with a pet monkey...Bluebeard, with his scimitar...a girl dressed half in black and half in white, to represent a magpie...a Tunisian in his tasselled fez...an Albanian chieftain giving his hand to Mephistopheles...a Maori from New Zealand...in reality no other than our correspondent Captain Robley, [with] paper and pencil, for a sketch, hidden under his apron of native flax...a Chinese mandarin...Joan of Arc, bearing her flag, inscribed "Ave Maria"...King Henry VIII...a Cavalier of Charles I.'s army with a Hungarian hussar...a peasant girl of Madeira...a Chinese lady...Scottish Highlanders, modern French soldiers, grim conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, Sikhs of the Punjaub, Zouaves, and Knights Templars, monks in their cowled frocks, Elizabethan dames...Spanish, Italian, Greek, Tyrolese, and Hindoo females'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.