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Images

  • A fashionable gentleman taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Etching, late 18th century.
  • A boy dressed in checked trousers and a top hat is leaning against a lamp post as a policeman speaks to him. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
  • Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.
  • A young woman's wig and hat being swept away by a gust of wind; behind her a young man is laughing, to the left stand an amused couple. Engraving by J. Caldwell, 1771, after J. Collet.
  • James Rae, James Hay, William Laing, and his niece, Miss Laing, standing on some planks. Etching by J. Kay, 1786.
  • A couple in fashionable dress. Woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 15--.
  • A male modelling the Stop AIDS shirt by Eton of Sweden. Lithograph.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing a bridal? dress and veil, in front of a plain backdrop.
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Works

    • Pictures

    A young woman posing in a photographic studio, holding a branch of a tree, in front of a curtained backdrop.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 541504i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures

    A young woman posing in a photographic studio, holding a flower, in front of a painted backdrop.

    Ogawa, Kazumasa, 1860-1930 | Date: [Early 20th century] | Reference: 541370i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures

    Three-quarter length studio portrait of a young woman.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 540818i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures

    A man dressed in macaroni-style with a high head-dress meets a monkey dressed in the same style. Mezzotint, 1774.

    | Date: Aug 2nd. 1774 | Reference: 2059375i
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