[The dog barber] [graphic].

Description

Title: [The dog barber] [graphic].
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A grinning man with a long queue stands facing right, holding a pair of shears in his left hand. He holds wooden box that serves as a stool in his right hand, and under his right arm is a struggling dog. Behind him, in the upper left, hangs a sign with three fleur-de-lis that is lettered "LA VENGEANCE De crotteur royal Tond des CHIENS Proprement".
Description: Title, printmaker, and publication date supplied by curator.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
For a version of this design in reverse, published 25 April 1771 by M. Darly, see no. 4668 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Mounted on page 10b in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.6 x 11 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 10b. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Drypoints England London 1770
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Barbers
Scissors & shears
Dogs
Signs (Notices)
Subjects: Clothing & dress > France > 1770-1780
Barbers
Scissors & shears
Dogs
Signs (Notices)
England > 1770
England > London > 1770
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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