Wig
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cotton, Hair, Silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350741
Summary
Wig of grey natural hair on a white cotton mesh foundation. It is shaped in 3 sections and edged with a grey silk twill ribbon. There are stiffened sideburn points. The forehead is of flesh coloured silk crepe line. The front is cropped and curled and the smooth back goes into a single queue bound with a violet coloured cotton tape in the style of the 18th century. (male)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor