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A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wig (which towers above her head in an oval form, and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed by a French hair-dresser who stands on the top of a step-ladder; the woman's husband, a naval officer, is holding a sextant to his eye to ascertain the altitude of the adornment. Engraving, 1771. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.