A barber-surgeons shop with animals in place of humans. Engraving, c. 1730, after E. van Heemskerck.

1730

1 print : line engraving and etching

A barbers shop a medley shews, of monsters, wigs, drawn-teeth and news. While one is shav'd another bleeds, a third the Grub Street Journal reads. The master full of whig and tory, talks politics and tells a story, and swears he is not such a sot, but that he knows full well, what's what.

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. II, London 1873, no. 1859

Wellcome Collection 11739i