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A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
Destouches, Paul-Emile, 1794-1874.Date: March 1st 1832Reference: 27191i- Books
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An Act for regulating, improving, and encouraging the woollen manufacture of mixt or medley broad cloth, and for the better payment of the poor employed therein.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
A treatise on the hair ... Also a description of the most fashionable methods of dressing ladies' and gentlemens hair, both natural and artificial. With an essay on dress in general. Address'd to the ladies of Great-Britain / [David Ritchie].
Ritchie, David, hairdresser.Date: 1770- Pictures
A man, holding a spade, posing in a studio.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 534536iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
A young man, wearing jewellery, in a studio setting.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 3305558iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
A man, wearing an elaborate coat, standing in front of a low fence, posing against a mocked-up rural background with farm buildings.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 534534iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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For ready money. R. & W. Stephenson, mercers, woollen & linen-drapers; manufacturers of bed-ticks, checks, cotton stripes, linen cloths, sheetings, &c. &c. at their shop in North-Bar-Street: beg leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have just returned from Leeds, Manchester, London, &c. ...
R. & W. Stephenson.Date: [1798]- Pictures
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A red-faced king stands in a red robe, flanked by a queen and the deity Mercury in green clothes; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
Reference: 38627i- Books
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Proceedings of the Committee appointed to manage the contributions begun at London Dec. XVIII MDCCLVIIII for cloathing French prisoners of war.
Committee appointed to Manage the Contributions for Clothing French Prisoners of War.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Pictures
Weaving, ceramic manufactures, clothing and coiffure displayed through personifications as industrial arts applied to peace. Process print after C. Brown after F. Leighton.
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 3069835i- Pictures
A Jewish physician in traditional costume. Engraving.
Date: 1568Reference: 21581i- Pictures
A Jewish physician in traditional costume. Engraving.
Date: 1568Reference: 21582i- Pictures
A man, wearing an elaborate coat and holding a rake, standing in front of a low fence, posing against a mocked-up rural background.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 534535iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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An Act for incouraging the dressing and dying of woollen clothes within this kingdom, by laying a duty upon broad cloth exported white.
Great Britain.Date: 1707 [i.e. 1708]]- Books
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An act to promote the linen and hempen manufacture, by encreasing the supply of Irish falx-seed, and encouraging the export of licens and sail-cloth, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Ireland.Date: 1782- Books
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An Act to prevent abuses in making linen-cloth, and regulating the lengths, breadths, and equal sorting of yarn, for each piece made in Scotland, and for whitening the same.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
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A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern. Particularly old English dresses. After the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others. With an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken; and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added, the habits of the principal characters on the English stage. (Receuil des habillements, etc.) [In English and French] [Anon.].
Date: 1757-1772- Books
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Discorsi due accademici sopra le fasce de' bambini : dati in luce in occasione del felice nascimento del conte Stefano primogenito della nobilissima famiglia Sanvitale.
Pezzana, Giuseppe, 1735-1802.Date: 1764- Books
[2300 years of medical costume from the time of Hippocrates to the Napoleonic era. A series of twelve prints / painted by ...W. Honegger-Lavater, from authentic costume reproductions in the University of Rome's Institute of Medical History].
Lavater, Warja, 1913-2007.Date: [1958?]- Pictures
King Charles I at Holdenby House (Holmby House), Northamptonshire, is summoned by Cornet Joyce, who shows the King his pistol as his authority. Engraving by N.G. Dupuis after P. Angellis.
Angellis, Pieter, 1685-1734.Date: [1728]Reference: 2897011iPart of: Ten curious prints of the most remarkable transactions of the reign of King Charles 1st- Books
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An Act for the exportation of white woollen cloth.
Great Britain.Date: 1707 [i.e. 1708]]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003526: Attendant packing red lead
Date: 4 July 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/29/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A young woman, seated on a low fence, posing against a mocked-up rural background with farm buildings.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 534533iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
A young woman, beside a low fence, posing against a mocked-up rural background with a tree.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 534532iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
A young woman holding a book, beside a low fence, posing against a mocked-up rural background, a wicker basket on the floor.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 534530iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.