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Concept

Cross-dressing

Images

  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.
  • C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.
  • A boy enjoying wearing female clothing. Colour process print, ca. 1919.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • A man wearing a kimono posing from behind a screen.
  • A Scotsman and his female companion swap his kilt and her trousers after going to the public baths. Colour process print after BF, 195-.
  • C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • A man wearing a kimono posing from behind a screen.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
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    A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 2044782i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Ephemera

    Total transformation.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man wearing a white dress at "Jays concert party".

    | Date: 1918 | Reference: 2044534i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Ephemera

    Transformed to perfection.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A young man called Oscar is asked by his mother whether he wears hairpins (regarded by her as effeminate). Colour process print, ca. 1907.

    | Date: [1907?] | Reference: 2059374i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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