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  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    [ca, 1840?]
    Reference
    20044i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

    • Ephemera
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.

    Date
    8 August 1931
    Reference
    16806i
    • Pictures
  • A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.

    • Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
    Date
    1829
    Reference
    525732i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.

    • Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
    Date
    [1780?]
    Reference
    29999i
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  • A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.

    • Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.
    Date
    [1568]
    Reference
    34979i
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  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    June ye 25 1735 [i.e. 1763]
    Reference
    20040i
    • Pictures
  • A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.

    Date
    Decr. 10th 1791
    Reference
    35289i
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  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    25 June 1735
    Reference
    20042i
    • Pictures
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  • Merchant Tailors' School, Suffolk Lane, London: facade. Etching by Sheppard, 1815, after himself.

    • Sheppard.
    Date
    1 October 1815
    Reference
    24392i
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  • A stage scene showing an interior where a masked man in a close-fitting striped dress stands before a table on which sits a volume of the House of Commons, beyond which is an open window showing tailors at work in a building opposite. Engraving, 1769.

    Date
    [Jan 26 1769]
    Reference
    583483i
    • Pictures
  • Marratta tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    32527i
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  • A tailor and assistant at work. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    28356i
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  • Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.

    • Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
    Date
    28 May 1802
    Reference
    10976i
    • Pictures
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    32819i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The homeworker and the outlook : a descriptive study of tailoresses and boxmakers / by V. de Vesselitsky.

    • Vesselitsky, V. de.
    Date
    1916
    • Books
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    28974i
    • Pictures
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  • Singapore: three native people known as "klings", and one "dhirzie" or tailor. Photographs by J. Taylor, c. 1880.

    • Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885.
    Date
    1880
    Reference
    32246i
    Part of
    Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    1735
    Reference
    20045i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A tailor fishing on a river bank is cowering away from a man with a large cosh hidden behind his back, who robs him of his hat, coat and boots. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 183-.

    • Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
    Date
    1830-1839
    Reference
    31616i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    28776i
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  • A tailor holding out a folding swatch of cloth samples. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.

    • Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
    Date
    20th Decr. 1773
    Reference
    30001i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The search : N. Kayser, merchant tailor, 256 West 31st Street, near 8th Avenue New York.

    • Kayser, N.
    Date
    [1882?]
    • Ephemera
  • A man is woken by the ghost of a friend calling to him: he crosses his bedroom in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and is annoyed to find it is a cat. Engraving, 1801.

    Date
    24t jany. 1801
    Reference
    36025i
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  • A hunchbacked jester to the sultan of Kashgar, invited to dinner with a tailor and his wife, dies through choking on a fish bone. Etching, 1787, by S. Watts after H.W. Bunbury.

    • Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
    Date
    Feby. 1st. 1787
    Reference
    2477173i
    Part of
    Arabian nights.
    • Pictures
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