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A laughing chimney sweep covered in soot except for his white wig which is glowing with hair powder. Coloured etching by W. Hanlon, 1795, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 1 June 1795Reference: 31996i- Pictures
An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 3 February 1773Reference: 12085i- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Reference: 12087i- Pictures
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Ten different types of wigs and hair pieces. Coloured engraving, 1875.
Date: 1 May 1875Reference: 31446i- Pictures
Franz Joseph Gall measuring the head of a bald, elegantly dressed old lady; her pet poodle is entwined in her wig on a chair. Coloured aquatint by F.C. Hunt after E.F. Lambert, ca. 1823.
Lambert, E. F., active approximately 1825.Date: [1823?]Reference: 11838i- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Charles Holburn wig-maker in Edinburgh, against John Park and Kenneth M'Intosh hair-merchants there, ...
Holburn, Charles.Date: 1725]- Pictures
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A fashionable man takes his hat off while strolling; his hairdresser assists him by supporting the weight of his large wig. Coloured engraving by J. Caldwell after M.V. Brandoin.
Brandoin, Michel Vincent, 1733-1807.Reference: 31879i- Books
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Lord Auchinleck reporter. November 28th 1761. Memorial for Adam Vallance and others, barbers and wig-makers in Canongate, pursuers; against Laurance Brown, John Morison and others, barbers in Edinburgh, defenders.
Vallance, Adam.Date: 1761]- Pictures
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A woman with an extremely high wig seated next to a male companion; they both watch a young man who appears to be acting. Engraving by I. Taylor, 1778, after himself.
Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807.Date: 1 June 1778Reference: 31674i- Pictures
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A barber lathering a man's face, other men trying on wigs. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1818, after H.W. Bunbury, 1811.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 1818Reference: 35607i- Pictures
Ramble Gripe in despair kneels on the ground, his back turned away from a gambling table; his hat, wig and some cards lie strewn on the ground. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
Bowles, Thomas, II, active 1712-1767.Date: [1735]Reference: 38343iPart of: The progress of a rake, exemplified in the adventures of Ramble Gripe Esqr son of Sr Positive Gripe- Pictures
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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.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 26 February 1810Reference: 33758i- Pictures
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A woman on horse-back raising a hand to catch an elaborate wig as it slips from her head; her hat has already been swept away. Process print by Charaire after Darcis after C. Vernet.
Vernet, Carle, 1758-1836.Reference: 31625i- Pictures
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A young woman's wig and hat being swept away by a gust of wind; behind her a young man is laughing, to the left stand an amused couple. Engraving by J. Caldwell, 1771, after J. Collet.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: 2 April 1771Reference: 31644i- Pictures
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A woman who has lost her hair is standing in front of a mirror with a wig in her hands, there are bottles and potions on the table by her and a box on the floor at her feet. Colour lithograph, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 35487i- Pictures
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A French hair-dresser (his nationality indicated by his bag-wig and ruffles) applying tongs to the hair of his seated customer, a bespectacled politician, who appears alarmed at a paper he is reading. Engraving after S.H. Grimm.
Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794.Date: 1771Reference: 31309i- Pictures
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A woman with a wig in one hand and an umbrella in the other stands shouting as a man cleans the barrel of a rifle and a dog stands nearby with a bone in his mouth. Stipple engraving by H. Bunbury.
Date: June 11th 1792Reference: 28514i- Pictures
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A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.
Reference: 31795i- Books
NHS wigs and fabric supports : how to get them free or get help with the cost / issued by the Department of Health.
Date: 1994- Books
NHS wigs and fabric supports : how to get them free or get help with the cost / issued by the Department of Health.
Date: 1991- Pictures
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Actors in formal dress in a courtly setting: the figure of Nakamura IV wears a long, red lion wig; the boy to the left plays a drum; the man to the right holds an offering tray with a petition on it. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1850.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1847/1850Reference: 35844i- Pictures
A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.Date: 1825Reference: 16329i- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellany: French, 14th-17th centuries
Date: 1392-1674Reference: MS.7468- Pictures
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.
Date: 1771Reference: 31709i- Pictures
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A man in a wig is holding a book aloft as a devil on the ground holds a chain attached to his ankle; a stork has alighted on a basket and a hand places a bag of money on a tombstone. Aquatint by L.R. after O.P.
Reference: 35761i