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Costume - History - To 500

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  • A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.
  • A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.
  • A tooth-drawer performing to a crowd accompanied by a howling patient, a monkey and a man dressed in Roman costume. Coloured lithograph by Lavrate(?).
  • The birth of Cupid from Venus, Mercury flies above them and nymphs aid them. Line engraving by W. Cooke, 1807, after E. Le Sueur.
  • Bacchus being bathed by nymphs after being born from Jupiter's knee, his mother Semele is consumed by flames. Engraving by C. Patas after A. Borel after Rinaldo Mantovano.
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    A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.

    | Date: 1 June 1800 | Reference: 17391i
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    Apollo, with three allegorical figures, holds a portrait medallion of Louis XVI. Engraving by J.B. Tillard after E. de Lavallée Poussin.

    Lavallée-Poussin, Etienne de, approximately 1733-1793. | Reference: 21637i
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    The birth of Cupid from Venus, Mercury flies above them and nymphs aid them. Line engraving by W. Cooke, 1807, after E. Le Sueur.

    Le Sueur, Eustache, 1616-1655. | Date: 1807 | Reference: 17254i
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    A tooth-drawer performing to a crowd accompanied by a howling patient, a monkey and a man dressed in Roman costume. Coloured lithograph by Lavrate(?).

    | Reference: 16736i
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    Cleopatra's doctor taking her pulse and telling her off for drinking pearls. Wood engraving by G. Morrow, 1912.

    Morrow, George, 1869-1955. | Date: 1912 | Reference: 15390i
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