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  • A travelling barber shaving a man in a makeshift tent; on the right three members of the clergy are talking; on the left a seated man is smoking a pipe. Coloured lithograph after G. Dura.
  • Four scenes involving a gay man: seated with his mother, lying on a bed having a scan, sitting in consultation with a member of public behind a desk, in a chemist looking at an aerosol of shaving foam [?]; includes a message in the centre about how gay men have fewer rights; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • German soldiers with heads shaved to avoid lice.
  • Bengal sepoys being shaved at the examination hall, Canton. Wood engraving.
  • A barber in his shop preparing to shave a customer. Coloured etching.
  • A female barber preparing to shave a man. Engraving after J. Lagniet, 16--.
  • 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.
  • An Indian barber prepares to shave a Brahmin's head. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two figures kneeling before a mirror; one shaves the face of the other. Lithograph after C. Wirgman.
  • A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • A barber-surgeon's house, where monkeys shave cats and let blood. Line engraving, c. 1660, after D. Teniers II.
  • A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.
  • World War One: a military medic having his head shaved by two men at a dressing station. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A barber's shop: an assistant shaves a seated customer, a second assistant dresses hair. Wood engraving by J. Gauchard.
  • A man trying to shave himself with a blunt razor. Lithograph by William Green after M.W. Fry, ca. 1820.
  • A man in a wide brimmed conical hat is about to shave his customer. Coloured lithograph after W.R. Snow.
  • Labourers being shaved in a barber's shop on a Saturday evening. Etching by Thomas Jones after himself after C. Dibdin.
  • Man being shaved in one of the hospital camps, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • A man who has rented a haunted castle is asked to shave the ghost of a deceased barber. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1861.
  • A barber getting ready to shave the face of a seated customer. Coloured etching by C. Bretherton, 1801, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Cranio-facial injury: the back of a man's shaved head following plastic surgery, showing scarring. Reproduction, ca. 1940 (?), of a photograph, ca. 1916.
  • The body of a standing man with his head shaved and his trunk dissected to reveal the viscera. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.
  • The body of a standing man with his head shaved and his trunk dissected to reveal the viscera. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.
  • Men being shaved and having their hair cut, styled and crimped by various male and female barbers. Coloured etching by R. Newton after himself, 1791.
  • The financier Jules Mirès as a barber about to shave an old man representing the old city of Marseilles. Wood engraving by J.-B. E. Diolot.
  • 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.
  • An old woman sitting in a chair outside a barber's shop is offered a shave by a barber. Lithograph by A. Midy, 1882, after himself.
  • Japanese funeral customs: two attendants wearing loin-cloths support the body of a dead man while a third shaves his head. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • William Hogarth making a drawing of his companions and himself as they shave and take their breakfast. Etching by Richard Livesay, 1781, after William Hogarth, 1732.
  • The body of a standing man with his head shaved and his trunk dissected to reveal the ribs and viscera. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.