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Hairstyles

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Hairdressing

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Images about Hairstyles

48 images from works
  • Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
  • Hairstyles through history. 12, French lady 1832.
  • Zululand: a married Zulu woman with a pyramidal hairdressing. Photograph.
  • Hairstyles through history. 3, Persia king.
  • A hairdresser holding a bust of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle. Coloured engraving by A. Joly, ca. 1813.
  • A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons; the lower two also wear flowers and ribbons. Coloured line block, 1876.
  • Hairstyles through history. 7, Arabia, Caliph, 9th century.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Chapel looking west, with people in the foreground. Aquatint by T. Malton, 1799.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
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Works from the collections

33 works

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Hairstyles through history. 12, French lady 1832.

    | Date: [1961?]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.

    William Hogarth | Date: 3 March 1736 | Reference: 10756i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.

    | Date: [1961?]
    • Books

    Hair : styling, culture and fashion / [edited by] Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang.

    | Date: 2008
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Zululand: a married Zulu woman with a pyramidal hairdressing. Photograph.

    | Reference: 644307i
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Related topics

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London
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Dandruff
Costume
Physicians
Fashion
Hair

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