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What year was this shot?

Sorry Harrison we do not know the specific date although the fashions suggest 1880s-1890s.

It is likely that these photographs were taken between 1887 and 1890, as we have recently discovered that this was virtually the only time when Pattison was active and living in Hartlepool

The photo has a very relaxed feel to it, despite the restrictive "beach wear".Glad the tide was out when this was taken. A mad scramble for the shore might have been tricky.

Adoree Villany first came to notoriety for her "Dance of the Seven Veils" in 1905; she was tried for obscenity in Munich in 1911-12, for her dancing "without clothing." She also published a book, _Tanz-Reform und Pseudo-Moral_, setting forth her philosophy of modern dance.

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Good thing she was acquitted!

What is she doing with her hands, needlework? Also, is this shot supposed to be suggestive of the style of a century earlier, Napoleon I era?

For a short bio from Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, by MR Karl Toepfer, see books.google.com/books?id=FgvYUZh75WwC&lpg=PA22&o... or by the same author, in Empire of Ecstasy publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft167nb0sp&... This piece suggests that she also based dances on paintings. This makes me wonder if this could be one of those. It looks to me as though the costume is not actually a dress, but designed to unwind.

Madame Lydia Yavorska (1869?-1921), Russian actress and theatrical manager: www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp54438

Date written on negative is 4/10/13 From: www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1158_lafayette/both.php... "Actress and Manageress Lidia Borisovna von Hubbenet was born at Kiev (Russia) 23 July 1869 and died Brighton (Sussex, England) 3 September 1921, daughter of Boris Iakovlevich von Hubbenet (1828-1898, a son of Jakob Anton von Hubbenet and Auguste von F[?]ssing) and Louisa Khristianovna Roterman. She married 26 July 1896 Prince Vladimir Vladimirovich Bariatinsky, born St. Petersburg 20 December 1874, died Neuilly-sur-Seine (France) 7 March 1941, son of Prince Vladimir Anatolievich Bariatinsky and Countess Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Stenbock-Fermor. As she was an actress, Prince Bariatinsky was obliged to leave his regiment and she was never received by her husband's family. They divorced in 1916 and he remarried another actress, Olga Alekseevna Berestovskaia, widow of Vladimir Nikolaevich Arsen'ev. Lidia Borisovna remarried 6 March 1920 Sir Frederick John Pollock of Hatton, 4th Baronet."

pennylrichardsca and swanq: Thank you for the additional details. When we update the source record, we will expand the descriptive information.