Alan Middleton, collector of rents Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Pete Townshend of British rock

Pete Townshend of British rock group The Who with his wife Karen and their new born baby daughter at Queen Charlotte's hospital

Actor David Niven relaxes in his hotel suite in London

In the 1860s the fashionable shape started to change

with decorative scroll-work above and a coat of arms below

Pentonville Hill

Alan Middleton, collector of rents Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Pete Townshend of British rockAlan Middleton, collector of rents, 15th century, (1910). Alan Middleton, a collector of rents for a monastery, wears bag sleeves, and has a penner and ink horn hanging from his girdle. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).