Extent of Digitization: Unspecified / Repository: Lewis Walpole Library / Subject (Topic): Hair preparations

Published / Created:: [approximately 1770]
Call Number:: 770.00.00.23
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satirical depiction of a machine which shaves six people in a line using a brush and razor which slide along a bar worked by a cogwheel turned by a man. In the lower left, a barber tends to a wig with curling tongs; a pile of hats along the lower d...
Description:: Title from caption above image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Gearing, Hair preparations, Hairdressing, Inventions, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Representation of the new shaving machine, whereby a number of persons may be done at the same time with expedition, ease and safety manufactured and sold by D. Merry and Son, Birmingham. [graphic]