Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robb...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
"A lady sits full-face behind a dressing-table, an open book in her hand, while a hairdresser (left) curls her hair with tongs; a cloud of smoke shows that her hair is burning, her expression shows that it is painful. She wears a dressing-gown. Beside...
Alternative Title:
Alas by some degree of woe, we every bliss must gain
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Dressing tables, Hairdressing, and Hairstyles
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1777.
Call Number:
777.03.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing ...
A fashionably dressed young woman stands before the mirror on her dressing table, a box of pins in her hand. Standing behind her on her huge bustle or "cork rump", her bespectacled hairdresser arranges her mountainous headdress, consisting of rows of ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd the act directs June 9, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Skirts, Dressing tables, Interiors, Women domestics, and Clothing & dress
Young woman sitting before a dressing table, her face showing in an oval mirror. There are hairpins strewn about and small boxes with cosmetics on the table
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Dressing tables, Wallpapers, Rugs, Hairdressing, Dressing and grooming equipment, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and veg...
Alternative Title:
Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady Featherd lady Feathered lady
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and veg...
Alternative Title:
Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady Featherd lady Feathered lady
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
"A macaroni dressed in a grotesque exaggeration of the prevailing fashion. His hair is in a high pyramid with side curls, an enormous club hangs down his back. A small three-cornered hat is perched on the top of his hair. He wears a large nosegay. He ...
"An elderly, sharp-featured virago, with skinny neck and muscular arms, sits directed to the right, furiously kicking and shaking her left fist at the old-fashioned looking-glass which stands on a muslin-covered dressing-table. The glass has been shat...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1805 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A scene in the Empress's dressing-room. Marie Louise is horror-struck at the appearance of Napoleon who advances towards her in profile astride the back of a crawling Mameluke; he is held up by two other Mamelukes who support his arms and shoulders. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Russia. and France.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, Piombino, Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, principessa di, 1777-1820, Bonaparte, Paolina, 1780-1825, Caroline Bonaparte, consort of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1782-1839, and Roustam, 1782?-1845
Subject (Topic):
Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Crowns, Dogs, Dismemberment, Dressing tables, Empresses, Ethnic stereotypes, Loss of consciousness, and Monkeys
"Lady Archer sits in profile to the right before her dressing-table, applying rouge to her cheek with a brush. Her notoriously painted cheek is blotched with drink. She is dressed for driving, wearing a coat of masculine cut, and a skirt which is shor...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 29th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A pretty young woman leans back in an arm-chair while a hairdresser applies paint to her face from a small box. She wears a morning-gown which leaves her breast much exposed. A woman (left) stands full-face behind her chair pouring out a glass of 'Ho...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 13th Octr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Women domestics, and Wine
"Lady Archer sits in profile to the right before her dressing-table, applying rouge to her cheek with a brush. Her notoriously painted cheek is blotched with drink. She is dressed for driving, wearing a coat of masculine cut, and a skirt which is shor...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 29th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A scene from a play: a soldier admired by a lady at her dressing table stands before a table of heads and ghosts, with an elderly couple to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monsieur Alexandre in The rogueries of Nicholas
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22nd Jany. 1825 by Wm. Heath at the new Panorama, 15 Grafton St., Dublin, and Henry Heath, London
Subject (Name):
Alexandre, Nicholas Marie,
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Dressing tables, Ghosts, Nuns, and Theatrical productions
"An effeminate dandy, elongated and with very thin arms and legs, leans back in a chair, one thin arm drooping to the ground, the other curving over his head, his fingers caressing a curl on his forehead. He gazes sideways with a languishing smile at ...
Alternative Title:
Exquisite at his devotions
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. King 23 Chancery Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, Dressing tables, Mirrors, Monkeys, and Rugs
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...
Surugue, Louis, approximately 1686 -1762, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Allegorical scene with Decrepitude as an old woman in extravagant costume putting another beauty spot on her face and looking at her reflection in a mirror on a washstand, while Madness personified by young woman with fool's bauble hanging from a sash...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Chez L. Surugue graveur du roy ruë des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves, A.P.D.R.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Aging, Clothing & dress, Cupids, Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Mirrors, and Women domestics
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
