A barber's shop. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.

  • Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Reference:
30160i
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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

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 21.4 x 31.4 cm

Lettering

A barbers shop

Reference

Wellcome Collection 30160i

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