A proctor without a wig [graphic]

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Title: A proctor without a wig [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Allen, Michael, active 1795-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: Jan. 14, 1797.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: London by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Abstract: "A fat, bald-headed man draped in a sheet, his beard coated with lather, sits full-face, looking sideways with angry apprehension at a lean barber (left) holding a razor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom.
Numbered 'Plate 51' in upper left corner.
Placement instructions: 'Page 121', in upper right corner.
Plates from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Provenance: Print Room ; Jan., 1999 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26 x 20 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1797
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co. 1798
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Barbers
Shaving equipment
Subjects: Barbers
Shaving equipment
England > 1797
England > London > 1797
Russell & Co. > 1798

Access: Public
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