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Creator:: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:: [8 October 1791]
Call Number:: 791.10.08.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The interior of barber shop: On the left a man stands before a mirror, face contorted as he wipes his jaw, unaware of the boy behind him pointing and laughing at him as he holds the man's pigtail in his hand. Another customer is shown in the center s...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. Octr. 8, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):: Barbers, Barber shops, Hairdressing, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A crop shop [graphic]

Published / Created:: published as the act directs 24 March 1788.
Call Number:: Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The interior of a barber's shop. The barber, ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of Alexander the Great; in his right hand is a pair of tongs. His hair hangs loose and on his head is his barber's basin. He is fashionably dress...
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):: Actors, Apprentices, Barbers, Barber shops, Cats, Dressing & grooming equipment, Interiors, Laughter, Hairdressing, Poverty, Tragedies, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tragedy burlesqued, or, The barber turned actor [graphic].