Title from item., Date derived from founding of brewery, and its change of name in 1918., Place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
C.L. Centlivre Brewing Co. and Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit
Subject (Topic):
Tonics (Medicinal preparations)., Patent medicines, and Nurses
Five of twenty-thousand pounds! and twenty-nine other captials
Description:
Title from text within image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of letterpress text below image: Second day of drawing, 17th this month, (March)-The wheel contains five of £20,000 and a variety ... J. & J. Sivewright, Contractors, 37 Cornhill; 11 Holborn; and 38 Haymarket., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"This engraving represents a circular building, with conical roof of tiles, shown in two sections, and partly in perspective. Within the building is a large wheel turned by a horse and giving motion to a considerable number of spindles, to which are attached disks; on each of the disks are several razors, which are thus set in action on the faces of the men who apply their cheeks to openings in the inner wall of the building. Exterior to this inner wall is a gallery where stand the men who are thus expeditiously shaved; their hats hang on pegs, each over the hole to which the owner has applied himself. In the gallery several men are finishing or preparing for their toilettes. The operation of dressing a wig is shown below the wheel, on our right, where many combs are placed on a drum which revolves like a water-wheel before a man's wig, placed on a block near it."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text following title: See the explanation., "Price 6d."--Bottom of plate, centered., For an earlier state published in 1745, see no. 2687 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, and English short title catalogue no. T42881., and With watermark of fleur-de-lis. Ms. note on verso in black in ink: Mr. Freeman, Arlington Street.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament Novr. [the] 2, 1749, and sold by J. Dubois at [the] Golden Head [the] corner of Burleigh Street near Exeter Chanc[...]
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Shaving, Razor blades, Machinery, and Wigs
