"Interior of a poorly-appointed barber's shop. The barber (left) is shaving a customer who sits in profile to the left facing the window, he holds his razor carelessly, to his customer's alarm, while looking eagerly towards another customer, who sits (right) on a stool in profile to the left, reading from the 'Morning Chronicle'. The barber's assistant or apprentice, a small ragged fellow, gapes up at the reader, he straddles across the stand of a barber's block on which is the wig which he is combing. Two other customers listen intently, both wear aprons, one of them is a shoemaker with a last under his arm. The man reading is shown to be a tailor by the yard-measure which hangs from his coat-pocket. On the wall hang coat, hat, wig, a broken looking-glass, a ballad, a roller-towel. In the window wigs are suspended. On the floor are two wig-boxes (left), inscribed 'Mr Deputy Grizzle' and 'Mr Snipp', a barber's bowl, and a night-cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership of Bowles and Carver. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers., Copy after a mezzotint of the same title published by Carington Bowles in 1782., Verses below imprint begin: Sam Soapsuds was scraping the Deputys chin; when Suet and Snip, with Old Crispin came in ..., and Watermark in lower part of sheet, countermark I V in upper part.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
An printed indenture form apprenticing a poor boy for a period of seven years, issued by the Mayor of the Town of Stamford, Lincolnshire and acting as trustee of an annuity paid from the estate of Thomas Earl of Exeter
Alternative Title:
This indenture witnesseth that of his own free will and with the consent of Gentleman ...
Description:
Title from first line of text., The Lewis Walpole copy: The document is signed and sealed with red wax and blind stamp and dated 1795 January 13. Docket title in manuscript on verso. Blanks filled in with the name of the boy, "Hugh Forster otherwise Foyster", who is apprenticed to George Sparrow, painter. Signed by the mayor, Jeremiah Belgrave, George Sparrow, Hugh Foster and J. Wyche. With notes on the verso, appending the agreement., Pages [2]-[4] blank., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Artists, Training of, and Indentured servants
This indenture, made the day of in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord ...
Description:
A printed form for the use by Church-Wardens and overseers of the poor., Title from first line of text., Form completed in manuscript, from the Parish of Stone, Staffordshire, setting out the terms of apprenticeship for Mary Adderley, aged 9, ‘a poor child of the said Parish’, to be taught and instructed by John Vernon in ‘the business of a housewife’, until the age of 21 or until her marrying. Signed by the Justices of the Peace, Thomas Anson and Walter Bagot, with a small wax seal., Also annotated on the verso with a summary of the apprenticeship terms, signed and dated by the officials., and For further information, consult library staff.
