The shaver and the shavee [graphic]

Description

Title: The shaver and the shavee [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Ackermann
Abstract: Interior view; a barber has covered his client with soap; prints and wigs hang on the wall
Description: Title etched in bottom part of image.
Printmaker identified as Rowlandson by Grego.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge.
A reduced copy in reverse of no. 4756 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.5 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1808
England > London > 1808
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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