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  • In the Garden of Eden, while the serpent curls around the tree of knowledge, Eve is about to taste the apple. Coloured etching, 17--.
  • The heads of four women wearing chignons with large curls attached to their natural hair; a chignon piece. Coloured engraving, 1875, after E. Thirion.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman who wears her hair in tight curls, a cap with feathers and a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman who wears her hair in tight curls, a cap with feathers and a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man who wears his hair short except for a mass of curls which fall over his left ear. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man who wears his hair short except for a mass of curls which fall over his left ear. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • A woman sitting at a dressing table reading a book; behind her a maidservant fluffs up the curls on a wig which she is about to place upon her head. Etching by J. Gillray, 1810, after himself.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • Oestrus detection: "Flehman lip curl"
  • A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wig (which towers above her head in an oval form, and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed by a French hair-dresser who stands on the top of a step-ladder; the woman's husband, a naval officer, is holding a sextant to his eye to ascertain the altitude of the adornment. Engraving, 1771.
  • A hairdresser is using curling papers to curl a woman's hair. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly.
  • Butilox natural hair curler. Bottle label
  • The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.
  • Rumex Crispus (Curled Dock)
  • Thomas Blizard Curling. Photograph by C. Silvy.
  • Thomas Blizard Curling. Photograph by Ernest Edwards, 1867.
  • Thomas Blizard Curling. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard.
  • Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: 'Curled Worm' vein pattern
  • Thomas Blizard Curling. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.
  • A bitch and its suckling pup resting curled up on the ground. Etching.
  • A hair-dresser accidentally severing a woman's locks with his curling tongs. Coloured lithograph.
  • A practical treatise on the diseases of the testis, and of the spermatic cord and scrotum / by T.B. Curling.
  • Curled mallow (Malva verticillata L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • A man in drag poses wearing delicate attire; curled up on a piece of furniture. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A man in drag, poses wearing delicate attire; curled up on a piece of furniture. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A man in drag poses wearing delicate attire; curled up on a piece of furniture. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A man in drag, poses wearing delicate attire; curled up on a piece of furniture. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A dog curled up and asleep under a tree. Etching by J.P. Le Bas after A.F. Desportes.
  • Portrait of Thomas Blizard Curling FRS, Surgeon to the London Hospital, a member of the St. Albans Medical Club