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M0000871: Roman instruments: needles and hair ornaments
Date: 28 July 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/8/58Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Digital Images
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Manchu ladies buying hair ornaments, Peking, Pechilie province, China
John Thomson- Pictures
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Japanese market scene: vendors are shown selling combs and hair ornaments, sandals, cloth, rice paste cakes and wigs. Colour woodcut by Shigenobu, 1865.
Shigenobu.Date: Month 12, 1865Reference: 566815i- Pictures
Actor Bandō Hikosaburō as a distressed young woman with festive ornaments in her hair: holding a scythe in one hand and a letter in the other. Colour woodcut by Yoshiiku, 1865.
Ochiai, Yoshiiku, 1833-1904.Date: 1865Reference: 35391i- Pictures
A girl in a long-sleeved kimono and playful hair ornaments with a boy who holds a puppet of a feudal lord's standard bearer; behind is Nihon-bashi in Edo. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1854.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 7, 1854Reference: 36880i- Pictures
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Hair pieces, combs, hair slides and other appliances. Etching.
Reference: 31454i- Pictures
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Ten different types of wigs and hair pieces. Coloured engraving, 1875.
Date: 1 May 1875Reference: 31446i- Pictures
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A woman is walking down the street in Buenos Aires wearing a very large head dress which is knocking people over and poking them in the eye. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle.
Bacle, César Hipólito, 1794-1838.Date: [1834]Reference: 35917iPart of: Extravagancias de 1834- Pictures
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A man in Buenos Aires is holding on to the skirts of a woman as she is being blown away by the wind that has caught in her large head dress. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle.
Bacle, César Hipólito, 1794-1838.Date: [1834]Reference: 35918iPart of: Extravagancias de 1834- Pictures
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A man in Buenos Aires is knocking down the wall of a house so that a woman wearing a very large head dress can get out. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle.
Bacle, César Hipólito, 1794-1838.Date: [1834]Reference: 35916iPart of: Extravagancias de 1834- Pictures
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Women attending the theatre in Buenos Aires are wearing very large, ornate head dresses, which makes it very difficult for men to talk to them. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle, 1834.
Bacle, César Hipólito, 1794-1838.Date: [1834]Reference: 35919iPart of: Extravagancias de 1834- Pictures
The head and shoulders of a woman looking to the right who wears her hair combed back and a head ornament; she also wears a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612.Reference: 32169i- Pictures
A Roumaine (Romanian woman) posing naked leaning against an ornamental urn.
Reference: 532017iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19655i- Pictures
China: Manchu women buying flowers for their headdress, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19654i- Pictures
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Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum): spathe and spadix with hairs and flowers, fruiting stem, leaf and tuber. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1853]Reference: 23985i- Pictures
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A camellia (Camellia japonica): a double red and single white flower. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1853]Reference: 23986i- Books
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Athenian wiggery, No. 119, Bishopsgate-Street within, three doors from the London Tavern, and at No. 29, High-Street, Margate. Ross, by great labour and at vast expence, has exerted all the genius and abilities of the first artists in Europe to complete his exhibition of ornamental hair, ...
Ross, Alexander, perfumer.Date: 1799?]- Pictures
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A well-dressed Hindu ascetic or holy man receiving gifts from a richly dressed woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
Reference: 567019i- Pictures
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Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: 1 August 1788Reference: 20137i- Pictures
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Actors in role: a young lover/rebel Shirai Gompachi reading a love letter while being led along by a courtesan's child attendant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 11, 1856Reference: 35859i- Books
Adornment : what self-decoration tells us about who we are / Stephen Davies.
Davies, Stephen, 1950-Date: 2020- Pictures
Peking, Pechili province, China: an old woman standing by a chair. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19700i- Books
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The new London toilet: or, a compleat collection of the most simple and useful receipts for preserving and improving beauty, either by outward application or internal use. With many other valuable Secrets in elegant and ornamental Arts. Containing near four hundred receipts under the following General Heads. Perfumes Fine Waters Baths Cosmetics Conserves Confectionary Snuffs Pastes Wash Balls Scented Powders Pomatums Fine Syrups Jellys Preserved Fruits, &c. With every Species of Cosmetic that may be useful in improving Beauty, or concealing the Ravages of Time and Sickness. To which is added a treatise on the art of managing, improving, and dressing the hair on the most improved Principles of that Art.
Date: 1778- Pictures
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Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19701i