21.
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- 782.05.20.02.2++
- 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 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
- 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].