Published 27th July, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description
Title from item. From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls. Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton. Three lines of descrptive text below title: These men travelling together, agreed each to watch four hours at night, in turn, for the sake of security. The barber's lot came first, who shaved the scholar's head when asleep, then waked him when his turn came. The scholar scratching his head and feeling it bald exclaimed, "You wretch of a barber, you have waked the bald man instead of me." Plate numbered '268' in lower left corner. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. X.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 20 x 24 cm, on sheet 23 x 30 cm
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