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  • A hair-dresser accidentally severing a woman's locks with his curling tongs. Coloured lithograph.
  • The heads and shoulders of three women with plaited and ringletted hair dressed with beads, ribbons and jewellery; five plaited and ringletted hair-pieces. Coloured lithograph, 1865.
  • A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement. Coloured wood engraving after John Leech.
  • The heads and shoulders of five male hair-dressers. Coloured lithograph by Jules Platier, 1840.
  • A woman seated at her dressing table having her hair brushed by a maid. Coloured lithograph.
  • A hairdresser is using curling papers to curl a woman's hair. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly.
  • Twenty figures showing different types of Roman (?) hairstyles and hair accessories for women. Coloured engraving.
  • A barber in Rouen dressing a man's hair. Coloured engraving by G.R. Lewis after himself.
  • The heads of five women with braided hair dressed with flowers. Coloured lithograph by Michelet, 1864.
  • A woman at her dressing table having her hair dressed by a female assistant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A woman in profile looking to the left wearing a large bow around her hair. Coloured etching.
  • Crested hair grass (Koeleria cristata) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Four different hair-styles and head-dresses worn by women in the late middle ages. Coloured engraving.
  • A female pubis with hair disease. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • The heads of three women wearing chignons decorated with flowers, ribbons and feathers, attached to their natural hair, above; two chignon pieces and a hair-piece below. Coloured engraving, 1875, after E. Thirion.
  • The heads of five women with ringletted hair dressed with jewellery and flowers. Coloured lithograph by Michelet, 1865.
  • Head of an infant with hair disease. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • Head of a man with hair disease. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • Head of an infant with hair disease. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • The "Peruvian harpy": a harpy with two tails, horns, fangs, winged ears, and long wavy hair. Coloured etching.
  • The heads of five women with braided hair dressed with ribbons and flowers. Coloured lithograph by Michelet, 1864.
  • A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman with brown hair wearing a high chignon attached to her natural hair which is decorated with flowers and feathers. Coloured line block, 1876, by Rigolet after A. Chaillot.
  • The heads of five women with braided hair dressed with flowers, beads and stars. Coloured lithograph by Michelet, 1864.
  • Head, neck, hand, foot and hair of a non-European woman. Coloured engraving by J.F. Schröter, ca. 1830.
  • A seated woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon. Coloured line block by Robé, ca. 1909.
  • A seated woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon. Coloured line block by Robé, ca. 1909.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman with blond hair wearing a high chignon attached to her natural hair which is decorated with flowers and feathers. Coloured line block, 1875, by A. Max after A. Chaillot.
  • A woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon sitting next to a table upon which are placed a pair of scissors and a bottle of hair tonic. Coloured line block by Robé (?).
  • The heads of five women with braided and ringletted hair dressed with flowers and beads. Coloured lithograph by Michelet, 1865.