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Perukes and periwigs / [Janet Arnold].
Janet ArnoldDate: 1970
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Doctor Diafoirus, a physician from Molière's play Le malade imaginaire. Coloured etching.
Reference: 21966i
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A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
Date: [1738]Reference: 22371i
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Preparations for a sunday promenade. : "what's the news?".
Date: [between 1870 and 1899]
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Cross-talk. Number forty six / Northern Concord.
Northern Concord (Organization)Date: 2002
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Ten different types of wigs and hair pieces. Coloured engraving, 1875.
Date: 1 May 1875Reference: 31446i
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Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
Reference: 24854i
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Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
William HogarthDate: [22 December 1726]Reference: 17342i
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NHS wigs and fabric supports : how to get them free or get help with the cost / issued by the Department of Health.
Date: 1991
Ephemera
Fashionable hair cutting, elegant assortments of ladies' head dresses, gentlemen's perukes, &c. 35, New Bond-Street / H. Ward.
Date: [1813]
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A surgeon and his assistant operating on a patient's head and using a drill to perform the trephination. Engraving, 1731.
Date: [1731]Reference: 22320i
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Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
Louis-Léopold BoillyDate: [1823]Reference: 16318i
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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.
George Murgatroyd WoodwardDate: [1803?-1806] ;Reference: 662684i
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Bought of Osborne, Garrett & Co. Ltd. : 51, 52, 53 & 54, Frith Street ... London ,W.1. : wholesale & manufacturing perfumers : human hair merchants and hairdressers' sundriesmen.
Osborne, Garrett & Co.Date: [1934?]
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Hair, when properly adapted to the features, is constantly acknowledged to be the greatest ornament of dress, as well as the least expensive ... : Mr. Low, of Southampton-Street, Covent-Garden ... / Mr. Low.
Date: [1769]
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Corporal Trim reading a sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop. Etching after L. Sterne.
Laurence SterneDate: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 22014i
Ephemera
J. Marsh, hair cutter and perfumer : hair brushing by machinery / J. Marsh.
Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]
Ephemera
H. Perry, perfumer, hair cutter & ornamental hair manufacturer : 12 & 13, Burlington Arcade / H. Perry.
Date: [between 1850 and 1879]
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A phrenologist examining a man's characterful head. Lithograph.
Reference: 12092i
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Wm. Cornish, ladies' and gentlemen's hair dresser, perfumer & ornamental hair manufacturer : 44, Edgcumbe Street, Stonehouse / William Cornish.
Date: [between 1800 and 1836]
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Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.
George Murgatroyd WoodwardDate: 1798Reference: 24853i
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An illustrated dictionary of hairdressing and wigmaking / by James Stevens Cox.
James Stevens-CoxDate: 1984
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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.
Louis-Léopold BoillyDate: [1824]Reference: 31670i
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The history of vanity / John Woodforde.
Woodforde, JohnDate: 1992
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Mezzotint after W. Hogarth, 1736.
William HogarthDate: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2498833i

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Perukes and periwigs / [Janet Arnold].

Doctor Diafoirus, a physician from Molière's play Le malade imaginaire. Coloured etching.

A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.

Preparations for a sunday promenade. : "what's the news?".

Cross-talk. Number forty six / Northern Concord.

Ten different types of wigs and hair pieces. Coloured engraving, 1875.

Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.

Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.

NHS wigs and fabric supports : how to get them free or get help with the cost / issued by the Department of Health.

Fashionable hair cutting, elegant assortments of ladies' head dresses, gentlemen's perukes, &c. 35, New Bond-Street / H. Ward.

A surgeon and his assistant operating on a patient's head and using a drill to perform the trephination. Engraving, 1731.

Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

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.

Bought of Osborne, Garrett & Co. Ltd. : 51, 52, 53 & 54, Frith Street ... London ,W.1. : wholesale & manufacturing perfumers : human hair merchants and hairdressers' sundriesmen.

Hair, when properly adapted to the features, is constantly acknowledged to be the greatest ornament of dress, as well as the least expensive ... : Mr. Low, of Southampton-Street, Covent-Garden ... / Mr. Low.

An episode in Tristram Shandy: Corporal Trim reading a sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop. Etching after L. Sterne.

J. Marsh, hair cutter and perfumer : hair brushing by machinery / J. Marsh.

H. Perry, perfumer, hair cutter & ornamental hair manufacturer : 12 & 13, Burlington Arcade / H. Perry.

A phrenologist examining a man's characterful head. Lithograph.

Wm. Cornish, ladies' and gentlemen's hair dresser, perfumer & ornamental hair manufacturer : 44, Edgcumbe Street, Stonehouse / William Cornish.

Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.

An illustrated dictionary of hairdressing and wigmaking / by James Stevens Cox.

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.

The history of vanity / John Woodforde.

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