Editorial??????, Yamauba Combing Her Hair and Kintoki, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1801, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm); W. 10 in. (25.4 cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753??1806), The story of Yamam...
EditorialWool-comber combing out wool remove short fibres. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818.
EditorialEdgar Degas (1834-1917). French painter. Woman Combing her Hair, ca. 1885. Pastel on greyish-brown paper pasted on cardboard. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialEvan of Wales assassinated by John Lambe during the siege of Mortmain-sur-mer, 1381. Evan sits combing his hair until treacherously stabbed by Lambe with a Spanish dagger (depicted as a lance). Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript fr...