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Grooming for men

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  • Two Russian valets are tightening ties around a young officer's waist as a third man brings a uniform for him to wear. Coloured etching, 1815.
  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: wash and bath room. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • A typical morning in a nursing-home: the patient seeks rest but is coninually being woken up. Process print after W.K. Haselden.
  • An old man is reading while his valets are attending to his toilet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.
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    An old man is reading while his valets are attending to his toilet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.

    Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. | Date: 1812/1888 | Reference: 567187i
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    New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: wash and bath room. Colour lithograph, 1864.

    | Date: 1864 | Reference: 20139i
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    A typical morning in a nursing-home: the patient seeks rest but is coninually being woken up. Process print after W.K. Haselden.

    Haselden, William, 1872-1953. | Date: 1900-1999 | Reference: 17395i
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    Two Russian valets are tightening ties around a young officer's waist as a third man brings a uniform for him to wear. Coloured etching, 1815.

    | Date: [1815] | Reference: 35504i
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    Manly beauty, being a professional, physiological and artistic treatise on the best mode of acquiring and preserving an attractive exterior, consistent with the highest condition of bodily health / By Antoine Saussure, valet-de-chambre.

    Saussure, Antoine, valet-de-chambre. | Date: [1847]
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