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  • Women wearing four different styles of fashionable wigs. Coloured etching.
  • A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • Two physicians in "macaroni" fashions. Etching by J. Johnson after J.W.B. (Bretherton?), 1772.
  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.
  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • Christ's Hospital: the Great Hall during a ceremony. Engraving by J. G. Walker, 1822, after T. Stothard, 1799.
  • A small boy places his grandfather's wig and hat on his younger sister; the grandfather looks on with amusement. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1824.
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Watercolour after L. Boilly, ca. 1823.
  • A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840.
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