"A lady stands at her dressing-table (right), her hair in an enormous pyramid decorated with feathers torn from a peacock, an ostrich and a cock. A young girl wearing a hat holds the peacock by a wing; another wearing a cap tugs hard at one of its tai...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
"Satire on barbers showing a figure composed from implements connected with the trade, the body being a mirror, the arms razors, the legs tongs, etc. In the background, three heads on blocks with names of "Three Notorious Spoil Trades": "N - cre", "Wa...
Description:
Title etched within item.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Bickham in May's Buildings, Covent Garden, and of all print sellers of London and Westminster
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Hairdressing, Shaving equipment, and Arcimboldesque figures
A hairdresser stands on stilts to dress the hair of a lady who sits before her mirrored vanity, her fee outstretched and resting on a foot stool. He pulls her long hair high above her head to its full length is taut as he twists to style it. She hold...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
La Mésangère
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Pride, and Stilts
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1833 and 1835]
Call Number:
Maidment N555 no. 1 Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below except for the center image, which has its caption "-- the CENTRE of gravity" within top portion of image
Description:
Title from text at top of design; letter "z" in "Magazine" is reversed.
Publisher:
Publish'd at No. 26 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, where may be had a great variety
In an elegant bedroom a young woman sits at her dressing table looking at her reflection in the mirror. At her side is a barber with combs in his apron gestures at her image which shows the elaborate high hair of the fashion. Embroidered curtains ha...
"A domestic interior. A fat and ugly citizen, wearing old-fashioned dress with a small unpowdered wig, stands on the hearth-rug (right), his back to the fire; he is meditatively reading the 'Gazette', headed: 'New Taxes', and 'Bankru[pts]', his left h...
Alternative Title:
Frugal family saving the guinea
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
