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  • A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.
  • Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • A seated barber shaving the back of a man's neck; another customer examines himself in a mirror and an attendant looks on. Coloured aquatint, 1800, after C. Gold.
  • A face with hair on end expressing despair. Crayon Manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, lying on her front on a piece of fabric, a goblet and jug beside her. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • A barber shaving a seated man's head. Watercolour painting.
  • Christ carries his cross to Golgotha. Etching by H. Kipp after J.F. Overbeck, 1846.
  • Bob Foster, the Cambridge flying barber, shaving a student. Coloured stipple engraving after I. Bearblock, of King's College.
  • Head of a man with hair raised, expressing despair. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • 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 skin and hair: microscopic views and whorls of fingertips. Engraving by A. Bell after G. Bidloo, 1798.
  • Krishna combing Radha's hair with attendant in the background. Chromolithograph.
  • Travelling barbers dressing hair in a courtyard. Wood engraving by Vierge after a photograph by W. Saunders.
  • A woman sitting at her dressing table having her hair combed by a male hair-dresser. Stipple engraving.
  • Head of a man with tousled hair. Drawing, c. 1794, after N. Poussin.
  • Twelve fashionable head-dresses for women. Etching.
  • An amateur barber dressing a man's hair in a street. Process print.
  • A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • 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.
  • Gangā and the river Ganges falling from heaven, while Shiva waits below to stem the fall with Nandi bull, Parvati and the sage Jahnu. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • The human hair : popularly and physiologically considered with special reference to its preservation, improvement and adornment, and the various modes of its decoration in all countries / by Alexander Rowland.
  • Venus at her toilet, assisted by the three Graces; she sits on the lap of one of them, another combs her hair, and two cupids hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.
  • The head and shoulders of a man in profile to the left wearing long hair-pieces attached to his natural hair. Engraving.
  • A seated barber shaving a man in a village in Bengal. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier after a drawing by W. Tayler.
  • Five ears surrounded by hair. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • "Mama, shall I have beautiful long hair like you when I grow up?" : "Certainly my dear, if you use 'Edwards' Harlene'." / Edwards' Harlene Co.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?] one drying her hair in front of a fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
  • Healthy skin : a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation & management / by Erasmus Wilson.
  • An Indian man with long hair, carrying a staff, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • The human hair : popularly and physiologically considered with special reference to its preservation, improvement and adornment, and the various modes of its decoration in all countries / by Alexander Rowland.