Representation of the new shaving machine, whereby a number of persons may be done at the same time with expedition, ease and safety manufactured and sold by D. Merry and Son, Birmingham. [graphic][approximately 1770]engA satirical depiction of a machine which shaves six people in a line using a brush and razor which slide along a bar worked by a cogwheel turned by a man. In the lower left, a barber tends to a wig with curling tongs; a pile of hats along the lower design. A blunderbuss is used as powdering horn. With an address to the public below and key to numbered references below. Pictures on the walls amplifying the subjectTitle from caption above image.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Publication date from British Museum catalogue.Caption below image begins: To the public. Whereas the wonderful powers of this useful machine are yet but little known ...Possibly the original of no. 15654 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11.