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Saint Saens / Samson / Lieb6
Act 3 scene 3 : Samsons hair has re-grown, giving him the strength to bring down the temple of Dagon on the heads of his Philistine captors

Saint Saens / Samson / Lieb4
Act 2 scene 3 : Samson has revealed the secret of his strength, Dalila has cut his hair and now calls the Philistine warriors to take him captive

Mat & Broom Seller 1804
Buy a mat or a hair broom; a street vendor plys his trade

Rhinemaiden
A Rhinemaiden sees the Rhine- gold in danger

Reading by a Fountain
A girl in a white dress with flowers in her hair reads in the garden beside an elaborate fountain

Steeple Headdress
A fanciful Victorian depiction of a mediaeval lady wearing a Hennin or steeple headdress of the late C15th. Other aspects of her costume date from the 14th century

Glamorous Smoker 1942
American film star Joan Bennett smokes a cigarette from a holder as she poses seductively for a promotional photo for her latest picture. Note the star hair slides!

Adjusting Tv, 1960S
A young woman with short dark hair, wearing a stripy mini dress, adjusts her television set

Hamlet / Ophelia / C19Th
Portrait of Ophelia wearing a white dress & a flower garland in her hair

Satire on Fashions 1869
A satire on the fashions of the day include flashy, tight trousers & fancy broad shouldered jackets. The polonaise, short skirts, panniers & false hair of the ladies are also mocked

Purple Bonnet 1865
Blue: demi-train, silk cord at hem, neck & as a device to loop up floating ribbon ends. Grey & purple: button & flat ribbon trim down the front & in points at the hem

Costume / Amy Aged 10 1865
Girl wears a dress with loose, pleated bodice, a crinoline supported short skirt trimmed with lattice motifs & sleeves with epaulettes & turned back cuffs. Hair worn plain

Zouave Jacket 1864
Red & black zouave jacket, white dress, skirt trimmed with a wide ruched border. Green dress ornamented with black straps held in place with buttons. Child: mantle

Costume / Garden 1850S
Green floral print dress; pink dress with a lace bertha; open corsage, chemisette & 3/4 sleeves with engageantes; lace caps with lappets; coiled hair with gold comb, plume & pearls

Costume & Harpsichord
Low corsage with tiny vandyked tucker & cuffs, plain ankle length skirt & bouffante sleeves ornamented with a large bow. Hair: dressed in coiled plaits with ribbons

Sporting Fashions C. 1805
A group of ladies enjoy a spell outdoors. Two ladies wear their hair in the fashionable titus cut. Their gowns have half-length sleeves & low, square necklines

3 Evening Dresses 1843
Hair is worn off the face & covers the ears & is ornamented with white ostrich plumes & wheat, rosettes & tiny flowers. Ans shaped coil of hair is secured with a comb

Grey or Striped Gown
Robe redingote: bishop sleeves, defined lapels on the bodice & trimmed to simulate a front opening. Adorned with black net lace. Hair: worn flat to the head

Blue Gowns 1837
Hair: plaited & coiled over the ears. Dresses: off-the shoulder, long ribbons descending from the waist, single flounce at hem, sleeves consisting of 3 lace flounces

Hair, Hats & Canezous
Front & back views of: Apollo knot coiffure adorned with an arrow; a wide brimmed bonnet with plumes & decorative detailing under the brim & a lace canezou (cape style)

Costume Parisiens 2622
Hair: Grecian style ornamented with red bandelettes. Gown: embroidered band of detail at knee level, corsage uni with horizontal revers, cleft on the shoulders

Exotic Lady 1830S
Hair dressed in large sausage curls; large red turban; huge pearl drop earrings; pearl necklace; red scarf; gown with black bodice, lace tucker & striped gigot sleeves

Hip Chelsea Types
She wears a scoop neckline mini-dress and knee high boots; he is more outrageous in brightly patterned drain- pipe hipster trousers, silk scarf and lounge jacket

Birth of Ganges
Ganga (the river Ganges), daughter of the moutain god Himalaya flows to earth from heaven through Shivas hair

Grimm Bros / German Mag
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM German folklorists and philologists

Mirandola / Thevet 1584
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA Italian humanist and leading scholar of Italian Renaissance

Cobbett / Smith / Oval
WILLIAM COBBETT Journalist and social commentator

Handwriting / Garrick
English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles, enclosing a lock of his hair for use in a portrait

Copernicus / Chapman
MIKOLAI KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) Polish astronomer

Harlene for Long Hair
- Mama, shall I have beautiful long hair like you when I grow up ? - Certainly, my dear, if you use Edwards Harlene

Crinoline Advert. 1864
PHILPOTTs SANSFLECTUM CRINOLINES : approved by the Englishwomans Domestic Magazine and by the Morning Post, these frames hold up the crinoline dress

Mendelssohn / Rotary Music
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer, with a quotation from his Rondo Capriccioso below

Mendelssohn / Rotary
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer

Mendelssohn / Stengel
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer

Mendelssohn / Fr
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer

Mendelssohn / Wills Cig
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer in middle age

Mendelssohn / Eichhorn
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer as a young man

Duchess of Lancaster
CONSTANCE OF GAUNT (married in 1369) depicted wearing a horned headdress with veil. In this later image she is shown in costume of both the 15th & 16th centuries

Harriet Bosse / Ilz 1930
MRS STRINDBERG - HARRIET BOSSE actress, and third wife of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg

Racial / Japan / Lady 19C
A Japanese lady at her toilet is washed by one servant while another holds a drawer of combs ready to do her hair

Franklin / Fragonard
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN the American statesman, scientist and philosopher in later life

Franklin / Thomson
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN the American statesman, scientist and philosopher

Maori Girl (Hardy)
Maori girl with tattooed chin, hair ornaments and ear-rings

Jesuss own Hair
This crucifix, made with some of Jesuss own hair, was dug up in Flanders during the 1650s

Battledore Fashion Plate
Short coloured skirts showing embroidered scallop edged petticoats, white blouses with imbecile sleeves & embroidered yokes & tuckers, floral aprons with pockets & black braces

Berlioz Postcard 1867
HECTOR BERLIOZ the French composer during his visit to St Petersburg in 1867

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