The barber's wedding [graphic]

Description

Title: The barber's wedding [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. July 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Caption title from ballad: The Barber's wedding. The text of the ballad is printed in letterpress below the plate (plate mark 17.7 x 24.9 cm.).
Publisher's announcement at the bottom of sheet after imprint: ... where may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling.
Temporary local subject terms: Trades: barbers -- Barber shops -- Trades: fishwives -- Fish baskets -- Public houses -- Drunkenness -- Pictures amplifying subject: playbill for Romeo and Juliet.
Watermark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 5; May 1954.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 40 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Ballads
Material: 1 etching, hand-colored ;
Subjects: England > 1791
England > London > 1791

Access: Public
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