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1.
Faut apprendre à souffrir pour être Belle [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1814?]
Call Number:
814.00.00.41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Faut apprendre à souffrir pour être Belle [graphic].

2.
The advantage of a wooden leg Living on wooden legs ; The advantage of putting the best leg

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 May 1828]
Call Number:
828.05.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below center image.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Black people, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Peg legs, Stilts, and Street entertainers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The advantage of a wooden leg Living on wooden legs ; The advantage of putting the best leg foremost! ; A gentlemans rest broken in consequence of going to bed with his leg on ; "Sing Old Rose & burn the bellows" ; A jury mast ; A trifling accident / [graphic]

3.
[John Nichols] [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1790]
Call Number:
790.00.00.19
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece from Wolcot's 'Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban alias Master John Nichols, Printer, . . . 1790'. Nichols (left) has just risen in anger from his chair and looks to the left, resting his clenched fists on two large volumes placed on a...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
G. Kearsley
Subject (Name):
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819., Hayley, William, 1745-1820, and Nichols, John, 1745-1826
Subject (Topic):
Fame, Ladders, Monkeys, and Stilts
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [John Nichols] [graphic].