Wigs Collection (page 16)

Coloured Wigs 1914
Coloured wigs donned by society ladies for the Duchesse d Uzes fete include green, turqoise, orange, lilac, purple, blue & red

Toilet / Hair / False Hair
Satire on the latest hair fashions - a monkey steals a ladys wig

Barber, Shave a Pig
Barber, barber, shave a pig, how many hairs will make a wig? Four and twenty, thats enough, give the barber a pinch of snuff

Fungi - Shaggy Ink Cap, or Lawyer's Wig. Vaucluse, PACA, France
WAT-12451 Fungi - Shaggy Ink Cap, or Lawyer's Wig. Vaucluse, PACA, France, coprinus comatus M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Disraeli / First Speech
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield Conservative MP, making his first speech in Parliament in 1837

Costume / 1667 Aristocracy
A 17th century aristocratic couple, both dressed for a special night out, with all the trimmings

Procession of Judges
Procession of judges at Westminster Abbey, a custom before the opening of the Law Courts

Hogarth / Physicians
The Company of Undertakers

Protestant / Bishops Walk
The Bishops of Gloucester, Ely and Chester carry ceremonial objects: the Patina, Bible and Chalice as they walk down a flower strewn aisle for a Coronation ceremony

Extravagant Styles
Coiffeurs at work on an extravagant hair style : a contemporary satire on the fashionable excesses of the late 18th century

Courts / Queens Bench
The Court of the Queens Bench in session

Makeup / Beauty Spots 18C
Four elegant ladies with beauty spots and patches on their faces

Toilet / Hair / Macaroni
A rather shallow-looking and irritating young man, known as a " Macaroni" smirking and supressing a giggle and wearing rather a large wig

Warren Hastings
WARREN HASTINGS English colonial administrator in India impeached in 1788 for corruption stands before the Court of Peers in Westminster Hall. A lady spectator faints!

Costume / Wigs
A servant holds Madams wig aloft with the help of a special stick

Toilet / Hair / Styles
Hair dressing; the old and new styles

Gregory Griggs & Wigs
Gregory Griggs had twenty seven different wigs, he wore them up and and he wore them down, to please the people of London town

Long Wigs of C17 Satire
Satire on the long wigs fashionable in the late 17th century, in which the caption suggests that a man wearing such a wig is nothing more than a poodle powdered

Scott / Rob Roy Intervenes
Rob Roy intervenes between Rashleigh and Francis Osbaldstone

Casanova meeting the Duchess of Northumberland
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) is introduced to the Duchess of Northumberland by Lady Harrington

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