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- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1772]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 772.03.01.02.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on a country barber-surgeon: a bespectacled man holding a lancet and razor stands in profile to right, a basin under his right arm, beside his shop-sign which bears an image of a wig; the village stocks can be seen beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Later state with slight alterations in design. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Surgery -- Lancet -- Scratches -- Food: Reference to sausages -- Reference to washballs -- Reference to black pudding -- Red herrings -- Medicine: Reference to Scotch pills -- Reference to powder for the itch.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs March 1, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Barbering, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Shaving equipment, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The village barber, L.M l'Inghilterra / [graphic]