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A pedlar with his tray of wares holds up a pair of scissors. Line engraving after M. Laroon, 1711.
Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.Reference: 16255i- Pictures
A face with scissors and a snake. Watercolour by David Thomas Meredith, 1976.
Meredith, David Thomas, active approximately 1975-1989.Date: 13.1.76. [13 January 1976]Reference: 3009658iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
Reference: 45059i- Pictures
A human tongue being cut with scissors held by a hand. Etching by Michael Esson.
Esson, Michael, 1950-Date: 1994Reference: 27330i- Ephemera
William Butler at the Blue Boar and Star, near the Monument, in Crooked Lane, London : sells all sorts of case knives & forks... scissors and razors of all sorts... snuff boxes & tobacco boxes.
Butler, William.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]- Pictures
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Surgical instruments: a variety of forceps, drills and scissors, with demonstrational figures. Etching by R.W., 1687.
Date: [1687]Reference: 568235i- Pictures
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A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34979i- Ephemera
Bought of H. Webster, surgeons' instrument maker and cutler : manufacturer of table knives, razors, scissors, pen knives &c. : 261, High Holborn : NB. all sorts of cutlery ground & repaired daily.
Webster, H.Date: Between 1800 and 1899- Pictures
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Surgical instruments (forceps, scissors and scalpel); advertising a trade exhibition in Baden-Württemberg. Lithograph after F. Mezger, 1965.
Mezger, Frank.Date: 1965Reference: 674444i- Books
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History of iridotomy : knife-needle vs. scissors - description of author's v-shaped method / by S. Lewis Ziegler.
Ziegler, S. Lewis (Samuel Lewis), 1861-1926.Date: 1908- Pictures
A woman taking a large knife and scissors to the corns on her feet. Coloured lithograph after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 11897i- Pictures
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Two cloth-sellers (?), each carrying a stick and a pair of scissors. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 583162iPart of: Trades and occupations in India- Pictures
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Textiles: a loom for carpet weaving, cutting with scissors (top), combing the warp threads (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 43826i- Ephemera
John Chasson, razor & surgeons instrument maker : at the C and Cross, in Newgate Street near St. Martins Le Grand, London : makes and sells all sorts of surgeons instruments, razor, lancets, scissors, penknives & all sorts of knives & forkes... / John Chasson, coutelier.
Chasson, John.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]- Books
A simple method of securing the lingual artery during the operation of excision of the tongue with scissors / by F. Bowreman Jessett.
Jessett, Frederic B. (Frederic Bowreman)Date: 1889- Ephemera
Edward Stanton at the Saw and Crown in Lombard Street London : lancet-maker : maketh and selleth all sorts of surgeons instruments likewise razors scissors penknives knives & forks... NB lancets and other instruments carefully ground and sett.
Stanton, Edward.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]- Books
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Illustrated catalog of extracting, operating and mechanical forceps, lancets, root extractors, scissors, shears, pliers, etc. manufactured by the S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co.
S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company.Date: 1911- Pictures
A French dog groomer standing in profile and carrying a pair of scissors, a wooden box and a poodle under his arm. Engraving after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: Apr.l 25th 1771Reference: 29496i- Pictures
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The Irish Massacre in 1642: men are being hanged, beaten and dragged by their feet behind horses while a woman has her nipples cut off with large scissors. Etching by Stothard.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Reference: 43130i- Books
Hypertrophy and prolapse of the tongue, occurring during convalescence after scarlatina : removal of the protruding portion with the ecraseur and scissors, with, ultimately, a good result / by Bowater J. Vernon.
Vernon, Bowater J.Date: 1865- Pictures
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A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.
Willette, Adolphe, 1857-1926.Date: [896]Reference: 549405i- Pictures
Norman Wisdom (British comic actor) playing a role in which he pretends to be a physician or surgeon, holding a pair of scissors and groping a nurse. Colour process print after J. Mascii, 1963.
Mascii, Jean, 1926-2003.Date: [1963?]Reference: 674325i- Pictures
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Two figures in the shape of scissors cutting a serpent in half representing an advertisement for Positive Women, a help group for women with HIV/AIDS by the HIV Vereniging Nederland. Colour lithograph by K. Haring.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 670634i- Pictures
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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 (?).
Reference: 33283i- Pictures
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An écorché figure, lying supine on a dissecting table, observed by two students: four instruments of dissection, including a scalpel, forceps and scissors, are also shown resting on the table. Stipple print by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
Gamelin, Jacques, 1739-1803.Date: [1779]Reference: 569960iPart of: Gamelin, Jacques