dress hook

dress hook is a jewelry or hook.

Also recorded as hook fastener.

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Recorded examples

Catalogued output is recorded as follows.

Wellcome Collection catalogues 8 works under this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that the false friend and inconstant mistress An Instructive novel. To which is added, Love's Diversion; displaying The Artifices of the Female Sex in their Amours, Dress, &c. With Directions for the Education of Both Sexes; and a Collection of Moral Letters on curious Subjects. By John Lyly, M. A. One of the Refiners of the English Tongue in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. is dated 1718 and held by Wellcome Collection. A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791. is dated [1791] and held by Wellcome Collection. It is also recorded that interior with reclining man holding snake-like hookah, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799. is dated [1799] and held by Wellcome Collection.

Man seated on balcony smoking cocoa nut hookah, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799. is dated [1799] and held by Wellcome Collection. The register further records that seated man in doorway smoking a cocoa nut hookah, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799. is dated [1799] and held by Wellcome Collection. Institutional cataloguing adds that two men smoking cocoa nut hookahs, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799. is dated [1799] and held by Wellcome Collection. Institutional cataloguing adds that a sailor saving a large lady and a slim gentleman from drowning by pulling the lady into the boat by hooking up her dress. Lithograph. is catalogued and held by Wellcome Collection.

The Hospital of Bethlem. L'Hospital de Fou. is dated [approximately 1747] and held by Wellcome Collection.

Sources and evidence

This entry is compiled from 5 catalogued sources across 5 independent registers. The registers consulted are Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wellcome Collection, DataCite and National Library of Medicine. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

Connections

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Broader subject

  • cap hookTerminology

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Sources

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  1. 1.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “dress hook”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    PubMed, United States National Library of Medicine, records for “dress hook”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 20 works naming dress hook.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  4. 4.

    “Dress hook”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  5. 5.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q28599903: dress hook

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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