Design consists of twelve compartments arranged in three rows, each containing one or two figures and etched lines of dialogue; various scenes showing barbers, both men and women, shaving customers, cutting and arranging hair in elaborate styles
Description:
Title from caption below images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
"Simple-minded people gaze up at placards inviting subscriptions to unsound companies. A high wall runs from a house partly visible on the extreme left, to the street corner, enclosing a large building placarded Hospital for Incurables Supported by Voluntary Subscribers [i.e. for victims of speculation mania]. On the right are old-fashioned houses, one of which is alined with a church, the scene suggesting one of the older parts of the City of London with seventeenth-century houses. The high wall on the left is covered with large bills at which the gullible are gazing: [1] Doctors Company--Capital One Million divided into Shares at -- Pr Share--the Advantages incalculable No Charge for Emetics opening draughts Injections &c-- [signed] Sam Sexton Clerk, [2] Patent Coffins provided on the shortest notice --No Surgeons Admitted--. [3] Genuine Milk Company free from Chalk Poison Water &--. [4] Company of Menders--Open to both Sxes in shares at--pr Share. None to be Admitted but who can give undeniable proofs of mending either their wives or Husbands Neighbours or Friends and lastly but most particularly Themselves. [5] Company of Scavengers Nightman [sic] and all imposters to be sent to the House of Correction. [6] Company of White Washers NB No Lawyers admitted [cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 11269, 11272]. [7] More Advantages-- A New Cabbage and Potatoe Compy Warrented Genuine No cooking required saves time and trouble 5s each Share. [8] Match and Tinder Compy Capital 2 Millions five farthings each Share. [9] Blacking Company. On the opposite side of the wide irregular street is a low-grade barber's shop, with the barber shaving a customer in the doorway. Outside the door his dwarfish assistant sharpens a razor on a grindstone. Above the door is a large tilted board: Tim, Slashem Barber and Perriwig Maker--begs leave to inform the patronizers of Merit--that he means to form a New Company of Mowers of Beards having discovered a New Machine to Shave 60 men in a minute, to comb oil and powder their wigs in the Bargain. NB. Bleeding and Teeth drawn gratis. The striped pole slants forward above the board. At a casement window under the roof a woman is washing; a cat prowls on the tiles. This is a corner-house, its (invisible) side facing Bubble Alley, where the corner-house has a large placard: Peter Puff--Manufacturer of Deal Boards--without Knots from genuine Saw dust &c. At right angles to this is a narrow street receding towards the church. On this are more bills and a projecting lantern: Subscri[bers or ptions] taken in here. Spectators gaze at the bills in the foreground, middle distance, and background. On the left a fat 'cit' and his taller and more fashionable wife walk purposefully; she dangles a reticule, his hand is deep in a pocket, they are clearly deluded subscribers. A yokel and his wife gaze up at the 'Milk Company' advertisement. On the right a countryman on horseback followed by his dog stares up at the barber's notice, as does a bearded Jew carrying a sack (of old clothes)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state with intact imprint statement, the year "1808" following Rowlandson's signature, and alternate plate numbering. For a later state with end of imprint burnished from plate, see no. 11441 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "40" in upper left corner., "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 168., and Mounted on leaf 26 of volume 10 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, March 10th, 1808, N. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Barbershops, Churches, and Posting signs & notices
Caption title., Date based on the watermark on the copy in the British Library., At foot of the first page: "Sold by the proprietor, G. Packwood, 16, Gracechurch-street London.", On the verso: "Vended in London by the following perfumers" and "Vended in the country by the following perfumers.", and Sheet trimmed close on left margin with loss of beginning characters in the first column of names on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Barbershops, Razors, Advertising, Perfumes industry, and Perfumes
Leaf 71. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike; plate originally published ca. 1800?, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 71 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Barbershops, Mirrors, Shaving, Shaving equipment, and Dogs
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[circa 1730-1745]
Call Number:
Print10157
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication from British Museum website., Description from British Museum: A satire [of] political ignorance set in a country barber-surgeon's shop in which the people have been given the heads of animals. At centre left, an old woman with the head of a cat, is being bled by a man with the head of an elephant whose hand is on her left breast, a monkey-headed boy holds a basin to catch the blood spurting from her arm. Behind them a man, with a boar's head wearing a work-apron reads from the Grub Street Journal to a man with the head of an ass and a bell round his neck. In the centre a cat-man sitting on a barrel holding a shaving dish has his whiskers trimmed by a barber with an ape's head on top of which is a flamboyant hat with long feathers. An ape-man behind waits his turn, and a man with two wooden legs and a crutch leaves through an open door. Overhead on the left is a projecting sign from which hangs a board showing an owl beneath which is written "Shave & Bleed for A Peny". Stuffed creatures hang from the ceiling: a grotesque fish, an eel with gaping moth, and an ape. The wall at the rear has been chalked with tallies and three wigs hang from it. A table in the foreground on the right has pulled teeth and various barbers' instruments on it. A hat with a large feather lies on the ground., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber surgery & surgeons; Barber shops, interior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Phlebotomy, Barbers, Barbershops, Peg legs, Shaving, Wigs, Donkeys, Swine, Monkeys, Cats, Surgical instruments, Crutches, and Elephants
Radere tonsorem decet, haud deglubere metum and A cure of folly
Description:
Title from item., Alternate title supplied by curator., From: Johann de Bry, Emblemate saecularis, Francofort: J.T. and J.I. de Bry, 1596., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barbers & Barber surgery; Barber shops, interior., and Number rubbed out at lower left.
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652, printmaker
Published / Created:
Ao. 1605.
Call Number:
Print01226
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
[The barbershop].
Description:
Title and date from item., Alternate title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Sheet trimmed., At bottom right, stamp of Friedrich August II., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber shops, interior., and Pencil inscription verso.
Title and date supplied by curator., Verse below image., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Phlebotomy, Barbers, Barbershops, Peg legs, Shaving, Wigs, Donkeys, Swine, Monkeys, Cats, Elephants, Teeth, and Newspapers
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication supplied by curator., In image top: Lib:3. C.68., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cupping, Phlebotomy, Barbers, Barbershops, Sick persons, and Medical tools & supplies
Title etched below image., Date assigned by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
