Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1788 / Subject (Topic): Tragedies

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].

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