EditorialCloth maker and dry shave guild of Amsterdam, guild token by Dirck Rutgers, copper medal. Obverse: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above cartouche with inscription inside scroll. Reverse: crowned up-standing dry shear scissors in the midst o...
EditorialCeremony of growing up Genbukuyoshi (title on object) A series for the Hanazono poetry association (series title) Hanazono bantsuzuki (series title on object), A young vrwou sits in front of her mirror to shave her eyebrows. Japanese women used to shav...
EditorialA member of the Agas Maghi sect. The members of this sect are not allowed to shave their hair or beards. They either covered their body with ash or wore colourful cloths. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describ...
EditorialMembers of the Akan Hutari sect. Members of this sect used to shave their beards. After death the bodies of members used to be burnt. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describing the different Hindu religious sec...
EditorialA member of the Dandi sect. Members of this sect used to shave all their body hair. They covered their bodies with ash and carried a pot and a stick at all times. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describing the ...
EditorialRāma and Lak?ma?a are reunited with Bharata and ?atrughna, who have kept Rāma’s kingdom for him during the fourteen years of exile. The four brothers bathe, shave and dress themselves in a series of twelve compartments, ready for Rāma’s cor...
EditorialA member of the Udasi sect. Members of this sect were not allowed to shave their hair or beard. They used to spend most of their time worshipping. A painting from a manuscript describing the different Hindu religious sects. Fuqara'-i Hind. early 19th c...
EditorialA member of Naga sect. Members of this sect were not allowed to shave their hair or beard. They were naked and had to cover their bodies with ash. A painting from a manuscript describing the different Hindu religious sects. Fuqara'-i Hind. early 19th c...
EditorialTattoo-Shave-Haircut. Reginald Marsh; American, 1898-1954. Date: 1932. Dimensions: 250 x 250 mm (image); 334 x 286 mm (sheet). Etching on white wove paper. Origin: United States.
EditorialTattoo-Shave-Haircut. Reginald Marsh; American, 1898-1954. Date: 1932. Dimensions: 250 x 250 mm (image); 334 x 286 mm (sheet). Etching on white wove paper. Origin: United States.
Editorial"There goes my wife!! Oh, the wretch, while I'm having a shave she's making a cuckold of me!," plate 22 from Moeurs Conjugales. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1840. Dimensions: 240 ? 205 mm (image); 324 ? 246 mm (sheet). Lithograph i...
EditorialCooper hammering a metal hoop on a hogshead barrel. On the walls are tools such as saws, axe, spoke-shave, stock and bit, adze and auger. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810.
EditorialMeroua. Sacred place formed by three great walls and located in one of the streets of Mecca. In the street there are barbers who shave the heads of the pilgrims when they complete the seven trips between Safa and Meroua. Engraving. Panorama Universal. ...
EditorialA member of the Agas Maghi sect. The members of this sect are not allowed to shave their hair or beards. They either covered their body with ash or wore colourful cloths. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describ...
EditorialMembers of the Akan Hutari sect. Members of this sect used to shave their beards. After death the bodies of members used to be burnt. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describing the different Hindu religious sec...
EditorialA member of the Dandi sect. Members of this sect used to shave all their body hair. They covered their bodies with ash and carried a pot and a stick at all times. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describing the ...
EditorialFrost fair, 3rd February, 1814. Description based on Dorothy George: View of the Thames during a Frost Fair, St Pauls in the distance. Tents include 'The Free and Easy on the Ice' and 'Wellington for Ever Good Ale'. The barber has a tent placarded 'Sha...
EditorialA member of Naga sect. Members of this sect were not allowed to shave their hair or beard. They were naked and had to cover their bodies with ash. A painting from a manuscript describing the different Hindu religious sects. Fuqara'-i Hind. early 19th c...
EditorialA member of the Udasi sect. Members of this sect were not allowed to shave their hair or beard. They used to spend most of their time worshipping. A painting from a manuscript describing the different Hindu religious sects. Fuqara'-i Hind. early 19th c...
EditorialA member of the Agas Maghi sect. The members of this sect are not allowed to shave their hair or beards. They either covered their body with ash or wore colourful cloths. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describ...
EditorialMembers of the Akan Hutari sect. Members of this sect used to shave their beards. After death the bodies of members used to be burnt. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describing the different Hindu religious sec...
EditorialA member of the Dandi sect. Members of this sect used to shave all their body hair. They covered their bodies with ash and carried a pot and a stick at all times. A painting from a nineteenth century manuscript of Fuqara'-i Hind, a text describing the ...
EditorialRāma and Lak?ma?a are reunited with Bharata and ?atrughna, who have kept Rāma’s kingdom for him during the fourteen years of exile. The four brothers bathe, shave and dress themselves in a series of twelve compartments, ready for Rāma’s cor...
EditorialFrost fair, 3rd February, 1814. Description based on Dorothy George: View of the Thames during a Frost Fair, St Pauls in the distance. Tents include 'The Free and Easy on the Ice' and 'Wellington for Ever Good Ale'. The barber has a tent placarded 'Sha...
EditorialA member of the Udasi sect. Members of this sect were not allowed to shave their hair or beard. They used to spend most of their time worshipping. A painting from a manuscript describing the different Hindu religious sects. Fuqara'-i Hind. early 19th c...
EditorialA member of Naga sect. Members of this sect were not allowed to shave their hair or beard. They were naked and had to cover their bodies with ash. A painting from a manuscript describing the different Hindu religious sects. Fuqara'-i Hind. early 19th c...
EditorialDraw Shave. Dated: 1938. Dimensions: overall: 26.2 x 44.5 cm (10 5/16 x 17 1/2 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard.
EditorialCooper hammering a metal hoop on a hogshead barrel. On the walls are tools such as saws, axe, spoke-shave, stock and bit, adze and auger. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810.
EditorialLayton Smith, bearded debtor in Fleet Prison, who vowed never to shave until his release. Died in prison. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialJohn Valerius, born without arms, exhibited in London from 1698 to 1705. With his feet, he could beat a drum, play cards, shave, fence, fire a pistol, write with a quill, etc. Engraving by R. Grave from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characte...
EditorialBELONGING TO A COUNTRY CORPS, WHICH OWING TO THE DISTANCE AND RAILWAY FACILITIES HAS TO START BETIMES FOR THE REVIEW, I RISE AND SHAVE AS THE STABLE CLOCK STRIKES I A.M., 1888 engraving.
EditorialInvasion of Italy - British fifth army advances north of Naples. Picture shows: Citizens of the town od Casoria come out on their balconies to watch a British tank man having a quick shave on top of his tank in the street.