"Interior of a poorly-appointed barber's shop. The barber (left) is shaving a customer who sits in profile to the left facing the window, he holds his razor carelessly, to his customer's alarm, while looking eagerly towards another customer, who sits (right) on a stool in profile to the left, reading from the 'Morning Chronicle'. The barber's assistant or apprentice, a small ragged fellow, gapes up at the reader, he straddles across the stand of a barber's block on which is the wig which he is combing. Two other customers listen intently, both wear aprons, one of them is a shoemaker with a last under his arm. The man reading is shown to be a tailor by the yard-measure which hangs from his coat-pocket. On the wall hang coat, hat, wig, a broken looking-glass, a ballad, a roller-towel. In the window wigs are suspended. On the floor are two wig-boxes (left), inscribed 'Mr Deputy Grizzle' and 'Mr Snipp', a barber's bowl, and a night-cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "477" in lower left corner., The Lewis Walpole Library: For later engraving published by Bowles & Carver, see 782.05.20.02.2++., No. 23 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 1807.
Call Number:
807.10.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: While deep in study and lost in thought in the complicated profession of a taylor and all on a sudden disturbed by the shrieks of a woman crying cucumbers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J Ruse., and Countermark: 1804.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A ragged 'botching tailor' is climbing out of his bulk or stall (right) to attack with his goose a tailor who hastens from him, turning to snip his shears contemptuously. Above the penthouse stall is a placard, 'Simon Snip - maks & mendes Mens & Buoys reddy mad Close. N.B. nete Gallows for Breaches.' A garment and a pair of braces hang on a line; within a window is a sheet of patterns. The other, who is neatly dressed, carries a coat under his arm; a book of patterns protrudes from his coat pocket. A street receding in perspective (right) and the façade of a dignified house (left) form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quarrelsome tailors and Two of a trade seldom agree
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '644' in lower left of plate., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Sewing equipment & supplies, Signs (Notices), Tailor shops, and Tailors
"A ragged 'botching tailor' is climbing out of his bulk or stall (right) to attack with his goose a tailor who hastens from him, turning to snip his shears contemptuously. Above the penthouse stall is a placard, 'Simon Snip - maks & mendes Mens & Buoys reddy mad Close. N.B. nete Gallows for Breaches.' A garment and a pair of braces hang on a line; within a window is a sheet of patterns. The other, who is neatly dressed, carries a coat under his arm; a book of patterns protrudes from his coat pocket. A street receding in perspective (right) and the façade of a dignified house (left) form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quarrelsome tailors and Two of a trade seldom agree
Description:
Title engraved below image., Variant state, with publication date etched in lower right corner of plate. For state lacking publication date, see no. 8595 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Numbered '644' in lower left of plate., No. 48 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Sewing equipment & supplies, Signs (Notices), Tailor shops, and Tailors
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., Mounted on page 107 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 20.9 x 14.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 795.12.20.02
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., 1 print on wove paper : etching with drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.9 x 14.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm., Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures erased from sheet, and year of publication in imprint altered in ms. from "1773" to "1795.", and Probably a later impression from a worn plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.12.20.02 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., 1 print on laid paper : etching with drypoint ; plate mark 20.6 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 21 x 14.7 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134
