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1. The battle of the barbers and surgeons [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 August 1797]
- Call Number:
- Print00035
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Hand-to-hand encounters between surgeons, indicated by their instruments and their old-fashioned dress, and barbers, wearing aprons and also with the tools of their trade. In the centre a barber seizes the wig and neck-cloth of his antagonist, who says: "Take care of my Wig I had it new to go down to the House". The other answers: "I ll dress your wig for you Master Bolus - you Bleed indeed - why I let as much blood for a penny, as you charge a pound for". A barber (left) bends over his prostrate victim (who cries murder murder), saying, "I'll teach you to despise Gentlemen Barbers you pitiful Pill monger." A stout well-dressed surgeon (right) raises his tasselled cane to strike a terrified and ragged barber, saying: "Ill teach you, you beggarly Scoundrel to call yourself Barber-surgeon & poking out your Damn'd Pole - when I am riding in my Chariot". The other screams "O Dear Brother Dressum youll throttle me I take in my Pole Damn the Cutting Part of the business". Behind (left), under a barber's pole from which hangs a barber's basin, a surgeon raises his cane to smite a fleeing barber. In the background two other couples are fighting. See British Museum Satires No. 9092, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Surgeons -- Barbers surgeons -- Company of Surgeons.
- Publisher:
- Pub. August 14, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Royal College of Surgeons in London. and Barbers Company (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting, Physicians, Barbers, Barber poles, Wigs, Surgical instruments, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The battle of the barbers and surgeons [graphic]