"Lyndhurst stands beside a dressing-table (left), in shirt-sleeves, wearing his Chancellor's wig. He puts one hand into the arm-hole of a coat which a footman in livery holds out, saying, 'Your Lordship's Coat is become very threadbare for you know yo...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 24, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Lyndhurst, Sarah Garay, Lady, 1795-1834., and Dudley, John William Ward, Earl of, 1781-1833.
Subject (Topic):
Dressing tables, Mirrors, Servants, Wigs, Coats, Ceremonial maces, and Robes
A domestic scene in a dressing room with a maid assisting a lady as she dresses, placing ornaments in her mistress's hair. A young girl sitting in a chair reads to a little boy who leans on her knee and looks lovingly into her face. A hat box rests o...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published April the 7th, 1789, by Ino. Matthews, No. 441 Strand
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
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
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...
"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
"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
