3-070-564 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Savage Club Entertainment, Royal Albert Hall: savages waiting for supper, 1883. Entertainment and costume ball '...in aid of the...founding of a scholarship in connection with the Royal College of Music...The costumes worn at the ball were probably the most varied ever seen together, and many were remarkably artistic, accurate, and splendid. Our Sketches of some of these can give but a limited idea of the extraordinary variety of the impersonations. The relations of this country with all parts of the world doubtless led to a wider diversity in the dresses than would be found in any Continental display of a like kind'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.