A crop shop [graphic]

Description

Title: A crop shop [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 October 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Octr. 8, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Abstract: The interior of barber shop: On the left a man stands before a mirror, face contorted as he wipes his jaw, unaware of the boy behind him pointing and laughing at him as he holds the man's pigtail in his hand. Another customer is shown in the center seated on a chair, the barber behind him about to cut off his pigtail as well. The third man sits in a chair on the right, reading a newspaper; his lower head is also shorn of its pigtail. The room show other customers as well as stands for wigs. Above the door on the right hangs a sign "R. Crop'em, hair dresser", a second sign beneath reads "Shave for a penny. Crop for two penny." Through the window on the left in the back, is a display of ladies' hats
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; May 2017.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.2 x 36 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Barbers
Barber shops
Hairdressing
Wigs
Subjects: Barbers
Barber shops
Hairdressing
Wigs
J. Whatman
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

Access: Public
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