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  • In a crowded salon, a wigmaker fits wigs according to occupation; representing the character stereotyping of Gall's phrenology. Coloured etching by J.E. Marcus after J. Smies, c. 1810.
  • A dandified hair-dresser in his salon arranging a woman's wig on a bust of a woman; to the left are two more busts, to the right are two wigs on stands. Colour process print after Debucourt (?).
  • A man is sitting in a barber's shop having his hair combed and crimped, another man is being shaved, others are trying on wigs and tying their cravats. Coloured etching, 1785, after H. Bunbury.
  • A French wig-seller giving directions to an Englishman outside a wig shop in Paris. Coloured aquatint.
  • A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • A barber dressing a wig. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Egypt, stype of wig, Mortuary Chapel of Ramose,1380 BC
  • A man tying a woman's absurdly high wig on to a scaffolding; another woman wearing a tall heart-shaped wig looks on. Coloured etching attributed to M. Rapine.
  • A wig seller selling his wares in Middle Row, Holborn. Etching.
  • A disgruntled physician wearing a legal wig and gown(?). Etching, 1771.
  • Wig-making equipment. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1762.
  • Wig-making equipment. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1762.
  • A man in a wig has his arm around another man's throat. Lithograph.
  • Shaggy ink cap or lawyer's wig fungus (Coprinus comatus): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1894.
  • Hair and wig-dressing equipment. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1762.
  • Shaggy ink cap or lawyer's wig fungus (Coprinus comatus): fruiting bodies on soil. Watercolour.
  • Wig patterns, boxes and stands. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1762.
  • A barber's shop in which a fat barber places a wig on an old bald-headed man, an assistant barber who wears spectacles fits a wig on a stout man, in the righthand background a man sits on a chair facing a window, and in the lefthand foreground a dog fouls a wig. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A bald-headed Charles James Fox in a wig shop (a dog is attacking his shoe) being shown a wig by the perruquier; to the right Edmund Burke is eavesdropping behind a door. Etching by Wetherell, 1793.
  • A hairdresser powdering a wig on a stand. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès de Villers.
  • Baron Brougham and Vaux represented as a second-hand wig salesman. Lithograph by Alfred Crowquill [?].
  • A man fast asleep with his head back and wig dangling. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Dr Thomas Bentley wearing a wig and a sword. Etching by A. Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
  • A woman having her extraordinarily high wig covered with a protective cone by a maidservant and hair-dresser mounting a step-ladder; the woman's lover, who also wears a high wig and protective cover, sits at her feet. Reproduction of an engraving.
  • A fat hunchbacked man with two large warts on his nose with hairs growing out, admires his fashionable wig in a hand-mirror; a grinning barber trims his wig in front of a table on which there are various hair-dressing appliances. Engraving, 1773.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman in profile to the right wearing a high wig with ribbons. Coloured etching.
  • A female barber shaving a man; another female barber dresses the customer's wig which is on a stand. Coloured engraving.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman in profile to the right wearing a high wig with a ribbon. Coloured etching.
  • A man wearing a ribboned wig, sitting on a chair, pointing his finger. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
  • Sir Thomas Dereham, wearing a wig, standing with his hand in his pocket. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.