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Pierrot (Fictitious character)

Images

  • An old woman is carrying a masked pierrot on her shoulders. Watercolour.
  • A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.
  • British prisoners of war, one in drag, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Process print, 191-.
  • A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.
  • A physician examining a person dressed as Pierrot who lies in bed, in the background another person in a similar costume is grieving. Etching by E. Champollion after T. Couture.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A pierrot expresses admiration for the lips of a sleeping woman. Stipple engraving after L.M. Sicard (Sicardi), 1789.

    Sicard, Louis Marie, 1746-1825. | Date: [1789] | Reference: 2821948i
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    British prisoners of war, one in drag, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Process print, 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 2044126i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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    A physician examining a person dressed as Pierrot who lies in bed, in the background another person in a similar costume is grieving. Etching by E. Champollion after T. Couture.

    Couture, Thomas, 1815-1879. | Reference: 22158i
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    An old woman is carrying a masked pierrot on her shoulders. Watercolour.

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 573497i
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    A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.

    Auger, Adrien Victor, 1787-1836. | Date: 1817 | Reference: 16488i
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