31.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 20 May 1782.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 from text below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "477" in lower left corner., The Lewis Walpole Library: For later engraving published by Bowles & Carver, see 782.05.20.02.2++., No. 23 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Apprentices, Barbers, Barbershops, Boxes, Mirrors, Shaving, Shaving equipment, Tailors, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Intelligence on the change of the ministry [graphic].
