Assyrian Bas-relief
Layard's "Nineveh." Beards were curled and probably dyed and powdered, the powder, however, being gold. As a matter of fact, gold was employed in various ways as an enrichment to the hair.
The Bearded Crossing sweeper at the Exchange
The Bearded Crossing sweeper at the Exchange That portion of the London street-folk who earn a scanty living by sweeping crossings constitute a large class of the Metropolitan poor. We can scarcely walk along a street of any extent, or pass through a square of the least pretensions to “gentility,” without meeting one or more of these private scavengers. Crossing-sweeping seems to be one of those occupations which are resorted to as an excuse for begging; and, indeed, as many expressed it to me, “it was the last chance left of obtaining an honest crust.” The advantages of crossing-sweeping as a means of livelihood seem to be: 1st, the smallness of the capital required in order to commence the business; 2ndly, the excuse the apparent occupation it affords for soliciting gratuities without being considered in the light of a street-beggar; And 3rdly, the benefits arising from being constantly seen in the same place, and thus exciting the sympathy of the neighbouring householders, till small weekly allowances or “pensions” are obtained.
The Old-Clothes Man
The Old-Clothes Man Fifty years ago the appearance of the street-Jews, engaged in the purchase of second-hand clothes, was different to what it is at the present time. The Jew then had far more of the distinctive garb and aspect of a foreigner. He not unfrequently wore the gabardine, which is never seen now in the streets, but some of the long loose frock coats worn by the Jew clothes’ buyers resemble it. At that period, too, the Jew’s long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation. In other respects the street-Jew is unchanged. Now, as during the last century, he traverses every street, square, and road, with the monotonous cry, sometimes like a bleat, of “Clo’! Clo’!”
Unhappy man with beard
Unhappy man with beard
Van Dyke Beard
Van Dyke Beard
Bearded man waiting for dinner
Bearded man waiting for dinner
Beastly Beard
Beastly Beard
Biker with beard
Biker with beard
Bowler with beard
Bowler with beard
Bowrtie man with beard
Bowrtie man with beard
Captain with Beard
Captain with Beard
Chinaman with beard
Chinaman with beard
Farmer with beard
Farmer with beard
Full beard - full hair
Full beard - full hair
Goatee Beard
Goatee Beard
Long Beard
Long Beard
Oriental with Beard
Oriental with Beard
Pastor with beard
Pastor with beard
Poirot perhaps
Poirot perhaps
Really long beard
Really long beard
Santa type beard
Santa type beard
Top hat with beard
Top hat with beard
Tufted Beard
Tufted Beard
Study of a head
Study of a head
Man with cane
Man with cane
Man in buckskin
Man in buckskin - dawn by Frederick Remington
Man in buckskin
Man in buckskin - dawn by Frederick Remington
Man with long beard
Man with long beard