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- Archives and manuscripts
Veterinary recipe book, 18th century
Date: c.1856Reference: MS.9190- Pictures
A man holding an anatomy book with an engraving of a woman showing her viscera. Oil painting, 18th century.
Reference: 45826i- Ephemera
Hair care ephemera. Box 9.
- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellanea Alchemica IX
Date: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.3559- Pictures
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A face with hair on end expressing despair. Crayon Manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Reference: 32629i- Books
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The art of painting in miniature, on ivory, in the manner at present practised by the most eminent artists in that profession; comprized under the following heads: Viz. The proper colours for painting in miniature, the nature and properties of each, and manner of preparing them. The mode of choosing camol hair pencils. Instructions relative to the choice of ivory, bleaching and polishing it preparatory to beginning a picture. Method of managing the colours at the different sittings in taking a picture from life, or in copying from another picture. An original work never before published by John Payne. To which is annexed, the art of burnished gilding on glass, in a variety of branches, a matter known by very few, and at present in high estimation.
Payne, John, active 18th century.Date: 1797- Books
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A six line dispute challenging all the independants, presbyterians, and baptists in Dublin to answer it. Occasioned by a discourse between Mr. Weilds, dissenting minister in New-Row in Dublin: and Ambrose Farmer, Taylor: on the 29th day of December, 1707, in his house, in the morning, where you have their discourse repeated first, the subjects we discoursed was about men's long hair, and womens high heads ...
Farmer, AmbroseDate: 1708]- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Books
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The art of dressing the hair. A poem. Humbly inscribed to the Members of the T. N. Club, By E. P. Philocosm. And Late hair-dresser to the said society.
Pratt, Ellis.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Lord Douglas' tragedy. To which are added, the shepherd's courtship The Blythsome Bridal; or the lass wi' the gouden hair. The farewell.
Date: 1792- Pictures
A levee in a lady's boudoir in 1760. Lithograph after J.B. Madou.
Madou, Jean-Baptiste, 1796-1877.Date: [1836?]Reference: 744233i- Pictures
A man hangs from hooks in his back, watched by a group of musicians and a crowd of people in a market square in India. Coloured aquatint by T. Medland after C. Gold, ca. 1803.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: [1803?]Reference: 640699i- Books
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The New School of love, or, True art of courtship, Shewing, how every one may know his partner's disposition and temper, by their hair, their eyes, and their nose, &c. With the interpretation of dreams and moles. To which is added, several love-letters, and songs, toasts and sentiments. The school of love.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Right Brunswick-Mum, a safe and speedy remedy, to remove the unnatural heat of the stomach, and giddiness in the head, contracted by drinking French Brandy. Or King George's welcome to London, being the white-hair'd gentlemen's congratulation of his sovereign majesty upon his happy Arrival and glorious Entry into the City of London, &c. B J. C. Whitelock, One of their Society.
Whitelock, J. C.Date: 1715- Books
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The new West-Country garland. In five parts. Being a remarkable Account of a young Orphan's Ramble into a Foreign Country, occasioned by her Uncle's striking her when she came to Visit him, also, the many Difficulties the Uncle underwent 'till she was found, he being suspected of murdering her; together with several other Things as well entertaining as they are true.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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The Midnight ambulator; or The nocturnal rambles, and hair-breadth escapes, &c. of the celebrated Don Lopez Devilshours. An eccentric character in the city of Madrid. Also containing a curious relation, by a lady to her husband, describing the dreadful malady of the night-mare, so prevalent in Spain.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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A new song call'd curling of the hair.
Date: [1740?]- Books
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The pall-Mall miscellany. Containing, many curious pieces in prose and verse; with variety of new songs, adapted to old ballad tunes and country dances. Amongst about 20 others are the following, viz. The Rape of the Golden-Hair; or, the Defeat of P. Alexis by the Miller's Wife. A facetious Ballad. To the Tune of, To all you Ladies now on Land. The Tryal of Mr. Harvey of Chippenham in Wiltshire, for having Criminal Conversation with the Wife of Mr. Gouldney, an Attorney of Chippenham aforesaid. Try'd at the Sittings of the Common-Pleas, Westminster, on Friday, Jan. 28, 1731-2, for which the Plaintiff recover'd 1000 l. Damages. The Irish Absentees new Litany; and the Character of an Irish Absentee. Inscrib'd to the E. of I--q--n. The Lucky Dwarf; or, the Marriage of a young Lady-Lord to a Carbuncle, Rich Heiress. A Ballad. To the Tune of, Packington's Pound. The Maiden-Wife; or, Nature Padlock'd; being a curious Poem on a certain young Dutchess who was made a Woman by Art, and restored to her Duke some Time after Seperation. Advice from L. H----y to Miss M--d-ws. The Six Frisky Maids; or, the Amours of P. Alexis. A new Ballad. To the Tune of, Pretty Parrot say, &c. A new Court Ballad. To the Tune of, Of a noble Race was Shinkin. The Chaste Lovers; or, Kissing more Substantial than Coition. On discovering a Maiden Lady sleeping with her Face veil'd in a Morning. By a Youth. Two Satyrs on Marriage; and one on a Female Mischief-Maker. A Funeral Poem on the Death of Mrs. Gascoigne.
Date: [1733?]- Books
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The pall-Mall miscellany. Containing, many curious pieces in prose and verse; with variety of new songs, adapted to old ballad tunes and country dances. Amongst about 20 others are the following, viz. The Rape of the Golden-Hair; or, the Defeat of P. Alexis by the Miller's Wife. A facetious Ballad. To the Tune of, To all you Ladies now on Land. The Tryal of Mr. Harvey of Chippenham in Wiltshire for having Criminal Conversation with the Wife of Mr. Gouldney, an Attorney of Chippenham aforesaid. Try'd at the Sittings of the Common-Pleas, Westminster, on Friday, Jan. 28, 1731-2, for which the Plaintiff recover'd 1000 l. Damages. The Irish Absentees new Litany; and the Character of an Irish Absentee. Inscrib'd to the E. of I---q--n. The Lucky Dwarf; or, the Marriage of a young Lady-Lord to a Carbuncle, Rich Heiress. A Ballad. To the Tune of, Packington's Pound. The Maiden-Wife; or, Nature Padlock'd; being a curious Poem on a certain young Dutchess who was made a Woman by Art, and restored to her Duke some Time after Seperation. Advice from L. H----y to Miss M--d-ws. The Six firisky Maids; or, the Amours of P. Alexis. A new Ballad. To the Tune of, Pretty Parrot say, &c. A new Court Ballad. To the Tune of, Of a noble Race was Shinkin. The Chaste Lovers; or, Kissing more Substantial than Coition. On discovering a Maiden Lady sleeping with her Face veil'd in a Morning. By a Youth. Two Satyrs on Marriage; and one on a Female Mischief-Maker. A Funeral Poem on the Death of Mrs. Gascoigne.
Date: [1732?]- Pictures
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A man in a gown is sitting on a chair in the middle of the room, preparing his dress and very elaborate hair style, with other men in the room. Coloured etching by I.W., 1772, after Captain Minshull.
Minshull, Captain, active 1772.Date: June 26th 1772Reference: 35489i- Pictures
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The countess's levee: a barber dresses her hair while she converses with Silvertongue, her lawyer. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [1745]Reference: 38356iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Ephemera
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To be seen at ... the English Dwarf : this amazing prodigy of nature was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire ...
Date: [between 1850 and 1890?]- Books
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Romoved from the next door to the still, near the Fleet-gate, to the next door to the golden bell in St. Bride's Lane, Fleet Street : where liveth a gentlewoman who cutteth and curleth gentlemens, gentlewomens, and childrens hair; and selleth a fine pomatum, which is mixt with ingredients of her own making, that if the hair be never so thin, it makes it grow thick.
Date: [1710?]- Books
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The new London spy: or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. Containing a true picture of modern high and low life; from the splendid mansions in St. James's, to the subterraneous habitations of St. Giles's, &c. wherein are displayed the various scenes of Covent-Garden, and its environs, the theatres, jelly-houses, gaming-houses, night-houses, coteries, masquerades, mock-masquerades public-gardens, and other places of entertainment, as well as of civil reception, public and private. Together with the various humours of the different inhabitants of the metropolis; particularly of bloods, bucks, choice spirits, and fellows of high fun; motherly matrons, and their obliging daughters; jilts, mock milliners, pimps, panders, jugglers, parasites, mock patriots; shallow politicians, ministerial understrappers; French hair-dressers, parish beadles, reforming constables, decrepit watchmen, &c. &c. &c. The whole exhibiting a striking portrait of London, as it appears in the present year, 1771.
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1771]- Pictures
Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
Clint, George, 1770-1854.Date: [16 March 1821]Reference: 22197i