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A Chinese entertainer spinning hats in the air with the assistance of a girl. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 581179i- Pictures
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Men and women are buying and selling clothes, hats and shoes at a market. Process print (?) by A.S. Boyd.
Boyd, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1854-1930.Reference: 35335i- Pictures
Children playing "Buffet the bear": a child plays the bear and the others hit it with their hats. Stipple etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2475451i- Pictures
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Young ladies in cook's hats are in a kitchen being instructed in the art of cooking. Coloured etching by John Leech.
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Proposals for insurance for marriage, by the Bee-Hive Society, at a Haberdasher of hats by St. Clements-Church, in the Strand.
Bee-Hive Society.Date: 1711?]- Pictures
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: view of the Pensioners cheering and waving their hats and sticks, at a King Charles's Day Parade. Wood engraving.
Date: 1855Reference: 20759i- Pictures
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A battle: an army wearing metal armour, and firing guns, meets an army wearing hats and breastplates, wielding swords and guns. Line engraving.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 43022i- Pictures
A man with crutches is going down the steps of a swimming pool; men wearing top hats in the background. Etching, ca. 1870.
Date: [1870?]Reference: 572663iPart of: The water cure illustrated.- Pictures
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Men in top hats releasing their dogs from the kennels and preparing them for a race. Etching by E. Hacker after E. Corbet.
Corbet, E., active 1856-1876.Date: 1868Reference: 41560i- Pictures
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Two men wearing the fashionable dress of checked trousers, top hats, cravats, waistcoats and top coats. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
Barret, J. V.Date: 1860Reference: 35302i- Pictures
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The heads of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons, hats, and flowers. Coloured engraving, 1875, after A. Max (?).
Date: 1 Avril 1875Reference: 32864i- Books
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The celebrated lecture on heads; which has been exhibited upwards of one hundred successive nights, to crouded audiences, and met with the most universal applause. Part I. Introduction. Alexander the Great-Cherokee Chief-Quack Doctor-Cuckold-Lawyer-Humourous Oration in praise of the Law-Horse Jockies-No Body-Lottery of Life-Nobody's, Somebody's, Anybody's, and Everybody's Coats of Arms - Family of Nobody - Vanity - Wit - Judgment - Genius - Architecture - Painting - Poetry - Astronomy - Music - Statues of Honesty and Flattery. Part II. Ladies Heads - Riding Hood - Ranelagh Hood - Billingsgate - Laughing and Crying Philosophers - Venus's Girdle - Cleopatra - French Night Cap - Face Painting - Old Maid - Young Married Lady - Old Batchelor - Lass of the Spirit - Quaker - Two Hats contrasted - and Two Heads contrasted. Part III. Physical Wig-Dissertation on Sneezing and snuff-Taking-Life of a Blood-Woman of the Town-Tea Table Critic-Learned Critic-City Politician humourously Described-Gambler's Three Faces-Gambler's Funeral and Monument-Life and Death of a Wit-Head of a well-known Methodist Parson, with a tabernacle Harangue.
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.Date: 1765- Books
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The celebrated lecture on heads; which has been exhibited upwards of two hundred successive nights, to crowded Audiences, and met with the most universal Applause. Part I. Introduction. Alexander the Great - Cherokeechief-Quackdoctor-Cuckold-Lawyer-Humourous Oration in praise of the Law - Horse Jockies - Nobody-Lottery of Life - Nobody's, Somebody's, Anybody's, and Everybody's Coats of Arms - Family of Nobody Vanity - Wit - Judgment-Genius Architecture - Painting - Poetry - Astronomy-Music-Statues of Honesty and Flattery. Part II. Ladies Heads-Riding Hood-Ranelagh Hood-Billingsgate - Laughing and Crying Philosophers-Venus's Girdle-Cleopatra - French Night Cap - Face Painting - Old Maid - Young Married Lady-Old Batchelor-Lass of the Spirit-Quaker 2 Hats contrasted -and 2 Heads contrasted. Part III. Physical Wig-Dissertation on Sneering and Snuff-Taking - Life of a Blood -a Woman of the Town - Tea Table Critic-Learned Critic-City Politician humorously described - Gambler's 3 Faces-Gambler's Funeral and Monument-Life and Death of a Wit-Head of a well-known Methodist Parson, with a Tabernacle Harangue. The sixth edition. With an entire new frontispiece, representing all the various heads, &c.
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.Date: 1766- Pictures
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Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: [1854?]Reference: 35215i- Pictures
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Women in fur capes and hats with feathers in are skating on a frozen lake, a man in a top hat and coat is watching from the side. Colour process print, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 34595i- Pictures
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Women are gathered in a milliner's shop looking at the hats for sale, a dummy is on the table wearing a large elaborate hat. Coloured process print by S. Kraków after A. Robida.
Robida, Albert, 1848-1926.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 35323i- Pictures
Rio de Janeiro: young children are being sold as slaves to men in cloaks and wide hats. Aquatint by Edward Finden, 1824, after Augustus Earle, ca. 1820.
Earle, Augustus.Date: 5. April 1824Reference: 37941i- Pictures
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Six men are working with combs, irons and brushes as they make hats of various descriptions, some tools of their trade are hanging on the walls. Coloured etching.
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Two men stand together in the street, wearing coats and top hats and smoking from holders; a man staggers down the street and bumps into the watchman. Etching.
Reference: 32812iPart of: London characters :- Pictures
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Recife, Brazil: a street with men in high hats and uniform pointing out with long sticks the slaves they wish to purchase. Aquatint by Edward Finden after Augustus Earle.
Earle, Augustus.Date: 5 April 1824Reference: 37940i- Pictures
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Women are making the nets, baskets and balloons for hot-air balloons, they are being inspected by men in top hats. Wood engraving by WBM after W.I.P.S. (?).
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Children are playing a game with one child curled up on the floor with a rope around his neck and the others running past hitting him with their hats. Stipple engraving.
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Two women with elaborate hairstyles and necklaces (designated as Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon) and two others wearing hats and fancy dress (Punch and his wife Joan). Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 32784i- Pictures
A large field has teams of different gymnasts, each performing different exercises, a row of men in coats and top hats are watching from the side. Engraved by T. Sutherland after G. Tytler.
Tytler, George, approximately 1787-1849.Date: Sept. 1826Reference: 35151i- Pictures
An old man, holding his hat in his hand.
Krieger, J.Date: [1900?]Reference: 532470iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.