A view of a barber's shop with images of customers receiving various stages of services: shaving, hair cuts, care of wigs. Two dogs fight over a wig in the foreground
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Copy of no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., No. 1 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date based on printmaker's known address., Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., No. 3 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from description of later states in the British Museum catalogue., Early state without numbering. For later state with plate number added, see no. 4670 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4; for reissue bearing both plate and volume numbers, see p. 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Clyster pipe -- Snuff box., and Watermark, trimmed: Fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. June 13th, 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., State with plate numbering only. For earlier state without any numbering, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 771.06.13.01.1; for reissue bearing both plate and volume numbers, see p. 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Clyster pipe -- Snuff box.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. June 13th, 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Early state. For reissue with additional numbering, see p. 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. May 21th [sic], 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Title from caption below image., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., Attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., Variant state based on comparison with another version in The Lewis Walpole Library. For later state with plate and volume numbering, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 771.06.07.02.2., and Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. June 7th, 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Early state. For reissue with additional numbering, see p. 39 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., and Figure identified by ms. note in pencil below plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, accor. to act
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
A couple of equestrian riders in Essex Warley Heath. The woman rides side-saddle; her companion follows behind struggling to control his horse and remain astride
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Reduced and reversed copy of no. 4761 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., No. 2 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Title from British Museum catalogue, Questionable attribution to H.W. Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: French postillion wigs -- Whips -- Dogs -- Muffs -- Jack-boots., and Title added in pencil in a modern hand at bottom of sheet: [A (French) postillion].
A scene in a barber's shop in which the centre figure is a man seated, full-face, swathed in a sheet, while a boy (left) applies tongs to his hair, which a man (right) is combing. In the foreground (left) a customer is seated, clasping his bald head with a concerned expression as he reads a newspaper "Morning post" dated Nov. 3, 1807. Behind him, two men, their hair freshly curled, stand in profile to the left before a looking-glass (left) adjusting their cravats. Beside them is a barber's block with a large, dressed wig. On the extreme right a barber shaves a man whose face is lathered; a low table to his left contains other shaving equipment. Next, a stout man wearing top-boots, standing full-face, turning his head upwards and in profile to the left, stanches a cut on his cheek with a towel. A boy stands beside him holding a barber's basin. In the centre foreground two dogs tug at a bag-wig. A barber's block has been overturned (right). Wigs and wig-boxes decorate the back wall
Description:
Title from print based on this design: "The barbers shop" published by J. Jones on 12 May 1785 "from an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. in the possession of Sr. Joshua Reynolds, to whom this plate is inscribed by his much obliged & most humble servant, John Jones.", Date of this drawing based on the date of the newspaper in the image., and Light crease down part of middle. Tear on the left hand side, and over all slight discoloration, scuffs. Light pencil drawing on verso.
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Barbershops, Dogs, Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Shaving, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
