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Beauty, Personal

Images

  • A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.
  • Some elderly patients wistfully reminisce about their younger days. Coloured lithograph by A. de Valmont.
  • A woman's head, expressive of sublime compassion. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • The new beauty-culture : an absolutely new way of beautifying the complexion... Pond's Extract Soap / Armour & Company.
  • Right profile of a boy exemplifying ancient Greek male beauty. Drawing, c. 1791.
All images (79)

Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    One for him, one for her, one for free : buy any two productes, get a 3rd free : Timotei original shampoo / Tesco.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    Estée Lauder : Advanced Night Repair protective recovery complex / Estée Lauder.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Ephemera

    Rowland's kalydor : ... produces a beautiful complexion ... by the sole proprietors, A. Rowland and son, no. 20, Hatton Garden, Holborn, London.

    | Date: [1822]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.

    Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 26944i
    • Books

    Palette : the beauty bible for women of colour / Funmi Fetto ; illustrated by Spiros Halaris.

    Fetto, Funmi | Date: 2019
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