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  • Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • A barber shaving a man in his shop in 1825. Wood engraving after F. Barnard, 1875.
  • Don Quixote with a lance riding a horse attacks a barber. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Labourers being shaved in a barber's shop on a Saturday evening. Etching by Thomas Jones after himself after C. Dibdin.
  • King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Engraving by B. Baron, 1736, after H. Holbein, 1542.
  • A barber's shop. Coloured etching after W.H. Bunbury.
  • A travelling barber. Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Watercolour painting.
  • A barber shaving a man in his shop; another man looks on. Woodcut.
  • Hindu barber and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A barber cutting a customer while shaving him; the customer retaliates by biting the barber's finger. Coloured aquatint by G. & C. Hunt after M. Egerton.
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
  • A seated barber shaving the back of a man's neck; another customer examines himself in a mirror and an attendant looks on. Coloured aquatint, 1800, after C. Gold.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • An Egyptian barber shaving a man in his shop; a boy assistant looks on. Engraving by J. Dadley after Vivant-Denon.
  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: wash and bath room. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • A doctor meeting a barber in a country setting. Engraving.
  • A hairdresser holding a bust of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle. Coloured engraving by A. Joly, ca. 1813.
  • A barber shaving a man. Mezzotint.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Woodcut by Jost Amman.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A barber shaving a man. Coloured etching.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.
  • A juror protesting that the subject of a coroner's inquest is alive; showing the danger of blind faith in doctors. Coloured aquatint by F, 1826.
  • A barber shaving a friar; in the left-hand background a monkey and a cat are fighting and squealing. Lithograph by J. Baker.
  • A barber dressing a wig. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Lord Goderich shaving, and Lord Howick shoeing, a group of slaves: referring to the abolitionists. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1832.
  • A travelling barber in Spain (?). Etching by C. Allard-Cambray.
  • Indian barber and wife. Gouache drawing.