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Women wearing four different styles of fashionable wigs. Coloured etching.
Reference: 31911i- Books
Sir Thomas Browne : the story of his skull, his wig, and his coffin plate / by F.J. Meyrick.
Meyrick, F. J.Date: 1922- Books
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Sir Thomas Browne : the story of his skull, his wig, and his coffin plate / by F.J. Meyrick.
Meyrick, F. J.Date: [1922]- Pictures
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The head and shoulders of a woman in profile to the right wearing a high wig with ribbons. Coloured etching.
Reference: 32178i- Pictures
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A female barber shaving a man; another female barber dresses the customer's wig which is on a stand. Coloured engraving.
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The head and shoulders of a woman in profile to the right wearing a high wig with a ribbon. Coloured etching.
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A man wearing a ribboned wig, sitting on a chair, pointing his finger. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 32869i- Pictures
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Sir Thomas Dereham, wearing a wig, standing with his hand in his pocket. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 32867i- Pictures
A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
Date: 8 February 1772Reference: 31720i- Pictures
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The head and shoulders of a woman in profile to the right wearing a high wig with lace and ribbons. Coloured etching.
Reference: 32175i- Pictures
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A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.
Date: Aug. 6, 1789Reference: 31656i- Pictures
A barber's and wig-maker's establishment, above; shaving bowls, flasks and razors, below. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1762.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [1762]Reference: 29085i- Books
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The genuine memoirs and most surprising adventures of a very unfortunate goose-quill: with an introductory letter to Mrs. Midnight's tye-wig.
Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Ephemera
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Beards takin off. & registurd! / by Isaac Fac-Totum, barber, peri-wig maker, surgeon, parish clark, scool master, blacksmith, and man-midwife.
Fac-Totum, IsaacDate: [Between 1790 and 1799?]- Pictures
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An uncouth man smoking a pipe while having his hair cut, asks the barber for his opinion on wigs and natural hair. Coloured lithograph.
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The gouty George IV using tongs to pass his discarded wig to Wellington; representing the Duke's appointment to office as First Lord of the Treasury. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1828Reference: 12247i- Pictures
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King George IV with Lady Conyngham inspecting wigs on wig-stands presented by a Frenchman; representing a disagreement in the cabinet with the 'Canning-ites' over the Corn bill. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1828.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1828.Date: March 1828Reference: 12221i- Pictures
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A woman wearing a high wig and protective hood entering into a breakfast parlour and being greeted by another woman wearing an elaborate wig and hat with feathers attached to the back of it; in the background a seated man looks on and a maid-servant brings in a tray of tea things. Mezzotint, 1778.
Date: 1 January 1778Reference: 31726i- Pictures
Lord Brougham sits on the woolsack in the Lords wearing a barrister's wig as four politicians stand around inspecting him. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1830.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: Dec 31 1830Reference: 651320i- Books
A feather in my wig : ovarian cancer cured twelve years and going strong! / by Barbara R. Van Billiard ; foreword by Theodore C. Barton.
Van Billiard, Barbara R., 1929-Date: 1998- 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: 22033i- Pictures
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A child in a wig and affluent clothing greets and is greeted by a poor looking man, while village people look on. Tinted lithograph by Terogio.
Reference: 27112i- Pictures
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A man wearing a wig and a cravat, holding the bagpipes and looking towards a woman on his right. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1743, after S. Leclerc.
Leclerc, Sébastien, the younger, 1676-1763.Date: [1743]Reference: 33842i- Pictures
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A dandified hair-dresser in his salon arranging a woman's wig on a bust of a woman; to the left are two more busts, to the right are two wigs on stands. Colour process print after Debucourt (?).
Reference: 31612i- Pictures
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A man, possibly William Conolly, wearing a frock coat and a wig, holding a tricorn hat under his left arm. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 32861i