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HAIR-DRESSING OF ROMAN LADIES AS ILLUSTRATED ON COINS. |
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47 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE club. Littre says its origin is unknown. A writer in Notes and Queries (VII. ix. 492) says "it is so called after a well-known Cadogan portrait, in which the sitter wears it, the print from which is popular in France." I have made careful inquiry in the Print Room of the British Museum, and have had some correspondence with Monsieur Henri Bouchot, of the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, but have not yet succeeded in identifying this print. The French Republican soldiers of 1793 sometimes wore their hair “en catogan.” Our Fellow, Sir Augustus Prevost, gives me the following notes: Larousse, in the Gr. Dict. Univ., has, “Catogan (on dit aussi cadogan) de Lord Cadogan qui en fut l'inventeur. Noeud qui retrousse les cheveux et les attache derriere la tete.” “Cadogan, etym. nom propre d'une celebre famille anglaise parait se rattacher au comte William de Cadogan “ (1675-1726). Acad. 1798, “Rouleau de cheveux retenus par un noeud." -Dict., Hatzfeld and Darmsteter. Antonia, daughter of Mark Antony and mother of Germanicus (38 B.C.-39 A.D.), has a similar "catogan," but of a small, thin variety. She wears a wreath tied with a riband. Illust. XIII. The silver head, in the Gold Room of the British Museum, ascribed to Antonia, formed the boss of a "phiale" from the hoard of silver plate found a few years ago at Bosco Reale, near Pompeii, and shews the hair very similarly rolled into a twist which hangs down the back. It is a sign of good work that every detail at the back is perfectly finished, though it never could have been intended to be seen so long as the bowl, of which it formed a part, was entire. It probably represents the lady of the house to which the plate belonged. Another
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