The shaver and the shavee [graphic]

Description

Title: The shaver and the shavee [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [12 April 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, April 12 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Description: Title from text below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published April 1772 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4756 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Year of publication in imprint possibly altered or traced over in manuscript.
Temporary local subject terms: Shops: Barber shop.
Watermark: 1805.
Hand-colored border almost completely obscures artist and printmaker signatures below image.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ix; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 249 x 238 mm, on sheet 280 x 330 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1801
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Barbershops
Subjects: Barbershops
England > 1772
England > London > 1801

Access: Public
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