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A funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat, in a churchyard. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Pettit after E.G. Byron, 1789.
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792.Date: 10 April 1789Reference: 563070i- Pictures
A rich man and a woman who has visited him for tea gossip about an impoverished gentleman's daughter who is present in his house as a governess: the visitor looks at the governess with a supercilious expression. Engraving by R. Hatfield, 1842, after Richard Redgrave, 1840.
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888.Date: April 10, 1842Reference: 3069408iPart of: Royal gallery of British art.- Books
Singled out : how two million women survived without men after the First World War / Virginia Nicholson.
Nicholson, Virginia.Date: 2007
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A woman who has lost her hair is standing in front of a mirror with a wig in her hands, there are bottles and potions on the table by her and a box on the floor at her feet. Colour lithograph, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 35487i
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An unmarried woman approaching middle age smiles seductively at the viewer as inwardly she considers her future with foreboding. Engraving by G. Kellaway, 1828, after T. Stewardson.
Stewardson, Thomas, 1781-1859.Date: April 1st 1828Reference: 672418i