Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 285
ostinnumerable. Some of themhave been very beautiful,while others have outragednot only nature, but everyprinciple of true art. Themost complicated, as well asthe most absurd style, per-haps, that ever prevailed, was that which reached its culmina-tion about the middle of the eighteenth century.… … Fig, 382.—Georgian a Cavendish. ABSURDITIES OF THE FEMALE COIFFURE. 279 and various other structures, about which the hair was so in-geniously intertwined that they were quite indistinguishablefrom the ladys head. A modification of this style, whichconsisted in rolling or folding the hair in a…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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