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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [13 December 1780]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a barber's shop. A very old and completely bald man reclines in an arm-chair (left), a cloth over his shoulders; a fat barber is about to place on his head a tie-wig. On the ground at his side lies a wig with a long pigtail queue which is being befouled by a dog. Behind, on a tall stand, is a barber's block fitted with a small wig. The barber's assistant, a lean man wearing spectacles and an apron, fits a small wig on the head of a stout man, who stands in profile to the right, his hand in his coat-pocket. On the right is a lattice window in three divisions; a man sits in a chair facing the window. Wigs are hung up in the window. On a high shelf (left) are round wig-boxes. Next the shelf is nailed up a print of Absalom hanging from a tree, while his horse gallops away. ... The ceiling is raftered."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., First two letters of "TRowlandson" in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 11 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accd. to act, Dec. 13th, 1780, by TRowlandson & J. Jones, No. 103 Wardour Street, Soho
- Subject (Topic):
- Barbering, Wigs, Dogs, and Windows
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A barbers shop [graphic].