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A barber's shop. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 178-, after W.H. Bunbury.
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
- Date
- [between 1780 and 1789?]
- Reference
- 30145i
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Credit: A barber's shop. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 178-, after W.H. Bunbury. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Description
In the centre a man is seated, swathed in a sheet while a boy on the left applies tongs to his hair, which a man on the right is combing. On the left two men admire their freshly curled hair in the mirror. On the extreme right a barber shaves a man next to whom stands a man who stanches a cut on his cheek with a towel. In the left-hand foreground a seated customer reads a newspaper with a concerned expression
Publication/Creation
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1780 and 1789?]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 13 x 18.6 cm
Lettering
A barbers shop ; H. Bunbury del ; Rowlandson sculp.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI London 1978, related to no. 6882 (dated 1785)
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 30145i
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Languages
- English
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