The cheap razor merchant the words written by Peter Pindar Esqr. [graphic]

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Title: The cheap razor merchant the words written by Peter Pindar Esqr. [graphic]
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [9 June 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd June 9, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Heading to engraved verses: 'The Words written by Peter Pindar Esqr.' A countryman, in shirt and breeches, rushes furiously from his cottage (l.) towards a complacent bagman with a sack over his shoulder and razors projecting from his coat-pocket. He stanches his bleeding face and holds out a bundle of razors to the man who has sold them. The salesman answers angry protests: "Upon my soul I never thought "That they would Shave." .... "What were they made for then, you dog?" he cries "Made!" quoth the fellow, with a smile, "to Sell!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Plate numbered '426' in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Four columns of verse below title and attribution: A country bumpkin the great offer heard, being well lathered from a dish or tub ...
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.1 x 27.2 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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