Domestic shaving [graphic]

Description

Title: Domestic shaving [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 August 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd August 21st, 1786, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Abstract: "A stout elderly man (left) seated in a chair shaves himself, while a pretty young woman (right) stands before him holding up a hand-mirror. A little girl is seated in a child's chair beside her father, she watches a cat and kitten at her feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 29.7 x 24 cm, on sheet 33.8 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Stipple engravings England London 1786
Material: stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cats
Families
Mirrors
Shaving
Subjects: Cats
Families
Mirrors
Shaving
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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