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- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1785]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury Drawer 785.05.12.01
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 31. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A scene in a barber's shop during the Westminster Election of 1784. 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. From the pocket of the boy protrudes a...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street, & W. Dickenson [sic], No. 158 Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Political elections, Barbers, Barbershops, Dogs, Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Shaving, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A barbers shop 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. [graphic]