[A penny barber] [graphic].

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11791577

Description

Title
[A penny barber] [graphic].
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created
[1789]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Wm. Holland
Abstract

"A very fat man draped in a sheet, his vast chin lathered, turns his eyes upwards to a thin barber who stands beside him (left), his bowl in one hand, soap in the other. Behind (left) a bald man bends over a basin, stanching a wound; and (right) the barber's man applies a flat-iron to a wig on a standing wig-block with a carved face. From the raftered ceiling hangs a lamp in a rectangular (?) paper shade inscribed: 'The Oldest Shaving Shop in London Most Mony for second Hand Wigs'. On the wall hang a bird in a cage, a print of two men, a wig. Wig-blocks, a razor, and the customer's wig lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state

Description
Title and publisher from lettered state.
Proof before letters; plate later published with the title "A penny barber" and imprint "London, Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street." Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7605.
Date from description of lettered state in British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Companion print to: A sufferer for decency.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 257-8.
Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent
1 print : sheet 34.3 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Aquatints England London 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Proofs
Material
etching and aquatint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1789
England > London > 1789
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12681929
Object ID (OID)
11791577

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