"The interior of a penny-barber's shop showing one corner of a small raftered room lit by a lamp hung from the roof and inscribed 'Shave with Ease & Expedetion for one Penny'. The barber (right) flourishes his razor above the head of a lean client whose face a boy (left) coats with lather, using a large brush; a bucket hangs on the boy's arm. In the background (right) a second customer in back view is also being shaved. Two wig-blocks lie on the ground (right)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 257., Companion print to: A penny barber., Date of publication inferred from imprint on earlier state: Pubd. as the Act directs June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay, on the Steine, Bright-helmstone. Cf. No. 7604 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Plate numbered "63" in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Barbershops--England., Shaving equipment., Signs (Notices), and Wigs.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title etched below image., and Traces of earlier imprint statement perhaps visible behind current imprint.
Publisher:
Willm. Holland, N. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Part of imprint lightly printed and illegible., and Title devised by curator.
Publisher:
J. Harris
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Date assigned by curator., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.