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Venus, or a nude woman, looking over her shoulder as she combs her hair. Engraving by J. Bouilliard, 1788, after A. Borel after Palma Vecchio.
Palma, il Vecchio, 1480?-1528.Date: 1788Reference: 33350iPart of: Galerie du Palais-Royal.- Books
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A treatise on the hair: Shewing Its Generation. Means of its Preservation. Causes of its Decay. How to recover it when lost. What occasions its different Colours; with the probable Means to alter it from one Colour to another. Its most proper Management in different Climates, and in all the Stages, and Circumstances of Life. also a description of the most fashionable methods of dressing ladies and gentlemens hair, both Natural and Artificial. With An Essay on Dress in General, Address'd to the Ladies of Great-Britain. By David Ritchie, Hair-Dresser, Perfumer, &c.
Ritchie, David, Hair-dresser.Date: MDCC.LXX. [1770]
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An old woman wearing spectacles picking fleas or lice from a man's hair; behind her stands a man who holds up a jug. Engraving by J. Aliamet after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 34172i
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Two women at a wash-basin; to the right is a man with the attributes of an initiate of Dionysus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
Date: 1937Reference: 34486i
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The art of preserving the hair on philosophical principles / by the author of the art of improving the voice.
Rennie, James.Date: 1825