EditorialOrnamental dough with chiseled iron hilt with horseman motifs, The hilt is adorned with hermes, horsemen, hymns and masks, the handle is wound with twisted iron wire and has grip rings braided on both sides, the crossbar has the shape of hermes lying o...
EditorialA block for the wigs or, the new state whirligig, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, engraving 1783, a carousel on which sit government ministers Charles Fox, Lord North, Edmund Burke and Admiral Keppel. Beam in the center of the carousel platform is a...
EditorialSmall glass with a group at a table and the inscription: OUR GOOD GOVERNMENT, Small glass of clear glass. The chalice is conical, the trunk consists of four bulges, the two in the middle decorated with small air bubbles. The foot is missing. On the gob...
EditorialOxford university big wigs and dons including Dr. Kett, Lord Greville, Dr. Grosvenor, Alderman Fletcher and Mr. Swan promenading on a Sunday. Shew Sunday, Sketches of Character in the Broad Walk, Christ Church Meadows, Oxford. Handcoloured copperplate ...
EditorialCaricature of fashions of the late 18th century: women in tall wigs with garden of flowers in her bosom, and macaroni in a tall wig with extravagant mass of hair tied at the back. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (...
EditorialVarious newspaper cuttings. Illustration showing various beards. An article on a shaving razor. A picture of a hairdresser. An article 'burning for witchcraft'. An article on shaving. A page from the 'Saturday Magazine', showing wigs and hairdresses. ....
EditorialThe Princess's Bow alias the Bow Begum. 1788. Here the three main players in the impeachment, Burke, Fox and Sheridan bow to Bahu Begum (referred to as 'Bow' Begum in England), the influential widow of the ruler of Oudh. Hastings' enemy Sir Philip Fran...
EditorialView in New Palace Yard, with Westminster Hall on the left, the Abbey peeping over the adjoining buildings in the centre, carriages and figures on street including three men wearing wigs and black robes. 1782. Source: Maps K.Top.22.15-c. Language: English.
EditorialAn Actor With a Rack of Wigs, Edo period (1615?1868), Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 12 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (31.1 x 14.6 cm), Prints, Okumura Toshinobu (active ca. 1725?1750).
EditorialTerracotta canopic urn, Archaic, 6th century B.C., Etruscan, Chiusi or environs, Terracotta, H. with cover 21 3/4 in. (55.2 cm); H. without cover 13 5/16 in. (33.8 cm), Vases, Long after inhumation became widespread, the people of Chiusi and surroundin...
EditorialOxford university big wigs and dons including Dr. Kett, Lord Greville, Dr. Grosvenor, Alderman Fletcher and Mr. Swan promenading on a Sunday. Shew Sunday, Sketches of Character in the Broad Walk, Christ Church Meadows, Oxford. Handcoloured copperplate ...
EditorialCaricature of fashions of the late 18th century: women in tall wigs with garden of flowers in her bosom, and macaroni in a tall wig with extravagant mass of hair tied at the back. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (...
EditorialTwelve advocates who plead without wigs. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.
EditorialTwelve advocates who plead with wigs on. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.
EditorialA block for the wigs or, the new state whirligig, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, engraving 1783, a carousel on which sit government ministers Charles Fox, Lord North, Edmund Burke and Admiral Keppel. Beam in the center of the carousel platform is a...
EditorialYoung man in chenille yarn jacket, cravat, gloves, trousers, top hat and stick. "When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery, wooden heels, huge baskets, that were found majestic or co...
EditorialMan with round bowler hat, green jacket, waistcoat, cravat, breeches, whip and pink-striped stockings. "When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery, wooden heels, huge baskets, that we...
EditorialMan in flowerpot hat, cherub hairstle and long ridingcoat. "When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery, wooden heels, huge baskets, that were found majestic or convenient by our fathe...
EditorialFashionable Parisians playing a game of chance called loto or lotto, 1798. Incroyables in high cravats, gilets, redingotes, wigs, breeches and boots. Engraving from Paul Lacroix's "Directoire, Consulat et Empire," Paris, 1884.
EditorialCostume of Desgouttieres, Secretary of the Directory and fashion leader in wigs. He wears a pyramid wig, high collar shirt and coat, breeches and stockings. He carries a claque (cocked hat) and glasses. Handcoloured etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumo...
EditorialRegency doctors in wigs and frock coats consult with a nurse in an elegant corridor decorated with landscape painting. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Eginton from Christopher Anstey's "The New Bath Guide," John Browne, 1807.
EditorialA block for the wigs or, the new state whirligig, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, engraving 1783, a carousel on which sit government ministers Charles Fox, Lord North, Edmund Burke and Admiral Keppel. Beam in the center of the carousel platform is a...
EditorialEmperor Death surrounded by skeleton courtiers with long wigs; a monk lies in state; skeletons bring coffin and shroud; time (chronos) flies to the right. Forground left Pope and cardinals, right a king and his army. " Rotelbuch" in which dea...
EditorialFragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nabamun, from Thebes, 18th dynasty, around 1350 BCE. Guests are dressed in festive clothing of the period. The women wear heavy wigs and cones of scented fat. They sniff the lotus flower and the round mandra...