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  • 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 barber cutting a boy's hair. Lithograph.
  • A barber standing in his shop with his hands in his pockets. Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber brushing the hair of a man who has very little hair. Colour lithograph after H. Heath.
  • 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).
  • A country barber shaving a farmer; another farmer looks into a mirror while he stanches the cut on his face; right, a second barber dresses a man's hair. Coloured engraving.
  • A barber's shop, Alresford, Essex. Colour process print, 1891, after T. Rowlandson.
  • A barber shaving a man; another man sits in the background awaiting his turn. Coloured etching.
  • A barber standing next to a seated customer in his shop. Coloured etching.
  • A barber cuts a man's face while shaving him; a second barber cuts a cross-eyed boy's hair; a third lathers the face of another man. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after T. Lane.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
  • A barber shaving a large man draped in a sheet. Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber standing in his shop with his hands in his pockets. Coloured lithograph.
  • A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by C. Dusart.
  • A barber's and wig-maker's establishment, above; shaving bowls, flasks and razors, below. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1762.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind, surrounded by representations of virtues and proverbs; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • A barber dresses a man's hair in the "Coach & Horses" at Southampton: another man looks out of a window at the arrival of a chaise. Colour process print, 1891, after T. Rowlandson.
  • A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • An uncouth man smoking a pipe while having his hair cut, asks the barber for his opinion on wigs and natural hair. Coloured lithograph.
  • Three officers having their hair dressed by three barbers in Quebec. Wood engraving after S. P. Hall.
  • A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht.
  • A barber playing the tragic role of Alexander the Great in the acting style of David Garrick. Mezzotint after R. Dighton.
  • A barber's shop. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 178-, after W.H. Bunbury.
  • A barber-surgeon's shop in which a man's hair is being cut. Etching, 16--.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).
  • A barber dressing a man's hair in a barber's shop at Richmond, Virginia; another man reads 'The New York Herald' while he awaits his turn. Wood engraving after E. Crowe.
  • A barber's shop. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.