A sufferer for decency [graphic]

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Description

Title
A sufferer for decency [graphic]
Contributor
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created
[not before 20 June 1789]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"The interior of a penny-barber's shop showing one corner of a small raftered room lit by a lamp hung from the roof and inscribed 'Shave with Ease & Expedetion for one Penny'. The barber (right) flourishes his razor above the head of a lean client whose face a boy (left) coats with lather, using a large brush; a bucket hangs on the boy's arm. In the background (right) a second customer in back view is also being shaved. Two wig-blocks lie on the ground (right)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Later state; plate has been slightly cut down with removal of imprint statement from bottom edge, and plate number has been added to upper right corner.
Date of publication inferred from imprint on earlier state: Pubd. as the Act directs June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay, on the Steine, Bright-helmstone. Cf. No. 7604 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Plate numbered "63" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
Companion print to: A penny barber.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 257.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii, p. 38.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 35.4 x 23.4 cm, on sheet 37 x 25 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
789.06.20.03+
Collection Title
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Aquatints England London 1789
Watermarks (Paper) Smith & Allnutt 1816
Material
etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
England.
Subject (Topic)
Barbershops
Shaving equipment
Signs (Notices)
Wigs
Subjects
Barbershops > England
Shaving equipment
Signs (Notices)
Wigs
England > 1789
England > London > 1789
Smith & Allnutt > 1816
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
7724166
Object ID (OID)
10731130

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