Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A bald-headed Charles James Fox in a wig shop (a dog is attacking his shoe) being shown a wig by the shop-keeper; to the right Edmund Burke is eavesdropping behind a door. Etching by Wetherell, 1793.
A bald-headed Charles James Fox in a wig shop (a dog is attacking his shoe) being shown a wig by the shop-keeper; to the right Edmund Burke is eavesdropping behind a door. Etching by Wetherell, 1793.
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A bald-headed Charles James Fox in a wig shop (a dog is attacking his shoe) being shown a wig by the shop-keeper; to the right Edmund Burke is eavesdropping behind a door. Etching by Wetherell, 1793.

1793

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The patent wigg. ; no fit you zir, perhaps you got de Paine in you head, make you tink so, dis vigg vill fit any loyal subject give but an eye to it zir as I hold it- ; Wetherell

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