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.
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1771
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31309i
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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1771

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1 print : engraving ; image 31.8 x 24.4 cm

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The politician. Extensively inscribed

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Wellcome Collection 31309i

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