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Four jovial gentlemen in a tavern, one holds a bowl to the face of his drunk companion. Mezzotint by Maucourt, c. 1764, after himself.
Maucourt, Charles, -1768.Date: 13 August 1764Reference: 26886i
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On the 27th December, 1724, Pope Benedict XIII. published a Bull, making it ten day's imprisonment for the clergy wearing a wig.
Date: [1724]
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Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.Date: [1823]Reference: 16315i
Part of: Grimaces
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Women wearing four different styles of fashionable wigs. Coloured etching.
Reference: 31911i
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A 'dentiste' extracting the tooth of a large well dressed gentleman. Coloured mezzotint by J. Wilson after himself, 1773.
Wilson, James, 1735-1786.Date: 15 April 1773Reference: 16522i
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To the ladies. : new-invented hair cushions for ladies to dress their own hair upon, they are different, far superior, and more convenient than any other... / Edward Evans.
Date: [1777]
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McCaskie hair-dresser : ladies braids & crape cushions made in the neatest manner / R. McCaskie.
Date: [between 1830 and 1879]
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An aged unpleasant apothecary. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.Date: 1 September 1774Reference: 16091i
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HDC.
HDC (Firm)Date: [1992?]
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A little chat about the crown : a little chat about the crown, we overheard, and wrote it down; and now the Chat rehearse, in something like a measur'd verse : the chat ... / Professor Brown.
Brown (Professor)Date: [1863]
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I like opposition, but defy competition : ladies' and gentlemen's hair cut and dressed, charge 6d / Harding.
Date: 1842
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).
Reference: 16611i
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Nosworthy, hair dresser and perfumer : St. Michael's Plea, Norwich / Nosworthy.
Date: [between 1830 and 1869]
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Bagnigge Wells, London: a fashionably dressed young couple greeting an acquaintance [an officer?] at a soiree. Mezzotint, 1772, after a painting attributed to J. Sanders.
Sanders, John, active 1750-1783.Date: 1772Reference: 38744i
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To hair merchants and hair dressers. : just arrived from abroad, a hair merchant, with a parcel of fine Hungary, German, and Flemish human hair, of all colours; the most of it is from 25 to 40 inches long ... may apply at no. 63 Red-Lion Street, Holborn.
Date: [1777]
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Henry Brougham wearing wig and gown and holding spectacles in his hand at his desk with papers for 'Reform'. Aquatint silhouette by J. Bruce.
Bruce, J. (John), active 1830.Reference: 16170i
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An old man with his arms around a young woman. Stipple engraving after Thomas Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 28597i
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King George IV with Lady Conyngham inspecting wigs on wig-stands presented by a Frenchman; representing a disagreement in the cabinet with the 'Canning-ites' over the Corn bill. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1828.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1828.Date: March 1828Reference: 12221i
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The gentleman's real head of hair, or, invisible ventilating peruke, is so close a resemblance to nature, as to defy detection... / Ross & Sons.
Date: [1846]
Ephemera
At a barber's shop in Tottenham Court Roard a large board is exhibited, on which is painted: : "the only hous in the traide for the new invented paten wove disgise wiggs warentid to chainge aney countinince".
Date: [between 1850 and 1879]
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An Oxford University proctor wearing a wig and carrying a cane looks through a quizzing glass at a flowerpot shown to him by a gardener. Pen and ink drawing by or after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Reference: 35663i
Archives and manuscripts
Notes and Observations on Physics, Metaphysics, etc
Date: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.MSL.31
Books
How to be a woman-- though male / by Virginia Prince.
Prince, VirginiaDate: [1980]
Ephemera
Hadley's fashionable perukes : R. Hadley begs respectfully to solicit gentlemen to give a trial to his recently improved perukes... / R. Hadley.
Date: [1836]
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William Barrett, aged 31. Stipple engraving by W. Walker after J. van Rymsdick.
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750-1788.Date: 1764Reference: 789i

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Four jovial gentlemen in a tavern, one holds a bowl to the face of his drunk companion. Mezzotint by Maucourt, c. 1764, after himself.

On the 27th December, 1724, Pope Benedict XIII. published a Bull, making it ten day's imprisonment for the clergy wearing a wig.

Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

Women wearing four different styles of fashionable wigs. Coloured etching.

A 'dentiste' extracting the tooth of a large well dressed gentleman. Coloured mezzotint by J. Wilson after himself, 1773.

To the ladies. : new-invented hair cushions for ladies to dress their own hair upon, they are different, far superior, and more convenient than any other... / Edward Evans.

McCaskie hair-dresser : ladies braids & crape cushions made in the neatest manner / R. McCaskie.

An aged unpleasant apothecary. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.

HDC.

A little chat about the crown : a little chat about the crown, we overheard, and wrote it down; and now the Chat rehearse, in something like a measur'd verse : the chat ... / Professor Brown.

I like opposition, but defy competition : ladies' and gentlemen's hair cut and dressed, charge 6d / Harding.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).

Nosworthy, hair dresser and perfumer : St. Michael's Plea, Norwich / Nosworthy.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a fashionably dressed young couple greeting an acquaintance [an officer?] at a soiree. Mezzotint, 1772, after a painting attributed to J. Sanders.

To hair merchants and hair dressers. : just arrived from abroad, a hair merchant, with a parcel of fine Hungary, German, and Flemish human hair, of all colours; the most of it is from 25 to 40 inches long ... may apply at no. 63 Red-Lion Street, Holborn.

Henry Brougham wearing wig and gown and holding spectacles in his hand at his desk with papers for 'Reform'. Aquatint silhouette by J. Bruce.

An old man with his arms around a young woman. Stipple engraving after Thomas Rowlandson.

King George IV with Lady Conyngham inspecting wigs on wig-stands presented by a Frenchman; representing a disagreement in the cabinet with the 'Canning-ites' over the Corn bill. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1828.

The gentleman's real head of hair, or, invisible ventilating peruke, is so close a resemblance to nature, as to defy detection... / Ross & Sons.

At a barber's shop in Tottenham Court Roard a large board is exhibited, on which is painted: : "the only hous in the traide for the new invented paten wove disgise wiggs warentid to chainge aney countinince".

An Oxford University proctor wearing a wig and carrying a cane looks through a quizzing glass at a flowerpot shown to him by a gardener. Pen and ink drawing by or after G.M. Woodward.

Notes and Observations on Physics, Metaphysics, etc

How to be a woman-- though male / by Virginia Prince.

Hadley's fashionable perukes : R. Hadley begs respectfully to solicit gentlemen to give a trial to his recently improved perukes... / R. Hadley.

William Barrett, aged 31. Stipple engraving by W. Walker after J. van Rymsdick.