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  • Hindu barber shaving a man's head. Gouache drawing.
  • Pears' shaving soap : 12 months of comfort for 12 pence : sold everywhere : a shilling stick lasts twelve months : Pears' transparent shaving stick, 100 years setablished as the cleanest and best preparation for shaving.
  • A barber who is also an artist neglects a seated customer whom he was shaving, in order to discuss one of his paintings with a potential purchaser. Photogravure, 1882, after F.A. Grison.
  • A barber shaving a man with a blunt razor. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1829, after E. Bird.
  • A naked man shaving the bottom of another standing in a bath with a razor; advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of HIV by the Core Program. Lithograph by Charles R. Moniz.
  • An Italian man with an extremely long bushy beard requesting a barber to confirm his advertised rate of a shave for one penny; the barber is forced to agree. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • A penny-barber preparing to shave a seated customer who is being lathered with a large brush by a boy assistant, in the background another barber shaves another customer. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A barber shaving a man who looks fearful. Lithograph by L. Boilly, 1823.
  • A shaving machine enabling many people to be shaved at the same time. Coloured etching.
  • Practitioners and patients in a busy barber-surgeon's shop; represented by monkeys and cats. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • An Egyptian barber shaving a man in his shop; a boy assistant looks on. Etching by G. Malbeste after V. Denon.
  • A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement. Coloured wood engraving after John Leech.
  • A French barber shaving John Bull. Coloured etching.
  • A barber shaving a man while another man distracts him by reading from a newspaper entitled "The true sun". Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Great news for british beards : great news for you too : the Sunbeam Shavemaster is back / Sunbeam Electric Ltd.
  • A man receiving a shave and a hair cut at the barbers representing the dangers of using unsterilised sharp instruments and contracting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian by the Department of Public Health, Maldives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A barber shaving a man; another man sits in the background awaiting his turn. Coloured etching.
  • A barber shaving a large man draped in a sheet. Coloured lithograph.
  • Thomas Thorne in character as a barber shaving a man. Process print, ca. 1886.
  • Who's going to make your customers a soft touch? : Battery Philishave - with an exciting new promotion ... Ladyshave - with a national TV campaign : starting April 6th for 8 weeks - masisve TV campaign for Philips shavers / Philips Small Appliances Division, Drury Lane, Hastings, Sussex TN34 1XN.
  • A Malabar barber cutting a customer's hair. Gouache drawing.
  • A barber shaving a man. Watercolour painting.
  • Pears' shaving soap : 12 months of comfort for 12 pence : sold everywhere : a shilling stick lasts twelve months : Pears' transparent shaving stick, 100 years setablished as the cleanest and best preparation for shaving.
  • Beards takin off. & registurd! / by Isaac Fac-Totum, barber, peri-wig maker, surgeon, parish clark, scool master, blacksmith, and man-midwife.
  • A shaving machine enabling many people to be shaved at the same time. Coloured etching.
  • Now! Remington easy terms : ...open your door to every man... / Remington Rand Limited.
  • Great news for british beards : great news for you too : the Sunbeam Shavemaster is back / Sunbeam Electric Ltd.
  • A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht.