Alan Middleton, collector of rents Size:XL: 100 x 80cm In the 1860s the fashionable

In the 1860s the fashionable shape started to change

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

Benjamin Bloomfield and others sit around a table with glasses of whisky in their hands

Monday 24th April 1972

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

Alan Middleton, collector of rents Size:XL: 100 x 80cm In the 1860s the fashionableAlan 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).