A barbers shop [graphic]

Description

Title: A barbers shop [graphic]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
Published / Created: [1785?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A view of a barber's shop with images of customers receiving various stages of services: shaving, hair cuts, care of wigs. Two dogs fight over a wig in the foreground
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication date from no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Copy of no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
No. 1 in an album of 10 prints.
Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Provenance: Given to the Lewis Walpole Library by Shepard Krech in memory of Annie Burr Lewis who died 9 May 1959; May 1959; With the bookplate of Shepard Krech, engraved by E.B. Bird.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Animal fighting
Barbers
Barbershops
Dogs
Hairdressing
Hairstyles
Shaving
Shaving equipment
Wigs
Subjects: Animal fighting
Barbers
Barbershops
Dogs
Hairdressing
Hairstyles
Shaving
Shaving equipment
Wigs
England > 1785
England > London > 1785

Access: Public
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