"An engraving, which is in some respects the sequel to "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, and "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, showing a party of workmen and tradesmen assembled in a room of the Merchant Seamen's Office, which was over the Royal Exchange. They are grouped about a large table, on which lies a long scroll or address. The president is a butcher, with a naked knife hi his hand; a tray at his feet contains a shoulder of mutton; doubling his fist, he cries: -- "I shall stick my Knife in Magna Charta, & cut up the Carcase of the Sill of Rights." A lean, hungry -looking man, sits grinning behind the butcher; next to the sitter stands a porter who declares: -- "D--mn his swivel Eyes I wish he may sink under his load." This refers to the marked squint of John Wilkes, who was at this time in prison and strongly opposed to the Court; see "John Wilkes Elected Knight of the Shire", British Museum Satires No. 4189, and "The Scotch Victory. (A.)", British Museum Satires No. 4196. A Dutchman, probably Mr. Muilmann, see "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, declares: -- " Ah ! de gross Scrip for Mynheer too"; this is in reply to a Jew who exclaims: -- " Oh for a large portion of Scrip.", i.e. probably subscription scrip to Government loans, which was very profitable to the lenders, and often alleged to be used as a bribe by the ministry; see "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, and "Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition", British Museum Satires No. 4289. A barber, with a shaving dish and napkin under one of his arms, and holding a wig in one hand, stands before the scroll, signing his name to it; he says: -- "I've got an order for a new Wig, only for signing my Name." A gaunt Scotch pedlar, with a bale at his back, and carrying a wand, declares: -- "Saumy mun sign too, gin it be to the Deel, for my gued laird's sake", i.e. for the sake of the Earl of Bute, the reputed patron of Scotchmen, see "We are all a comeing", British Museum Satires No. 3823. A baker, with a basket of bread on his shoulders, approaches the table and says: -- "Brother Merchants follow my example & you'll never want Bread." A meagre chimney-sweep, clad in sooty garments, advances to the table and remarks: -- "Who knows but I may be appointed to a Chimney at Court.""--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Principal merchants and traders assembled at the Merchant Seaman's Office ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), page 134., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Merchant Seamen's Office -- Food: loaves of bread -- Petitions: Address of the Merchant Trades of London, March 1769 -- Peter Muilman., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
date.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 83. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: the interior of a barber who has covered his client with soap; prints and wigs are hanging on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Second state, with shading added to the floor and to other parts of the image. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 83 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Barbershops, Barbers, Shaving, Wigs, and Pictures
"The interior of a barber's shop. The barber, ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of Alexander the Great; in his right hand is a pair of tongs. His hair hangs loose and on his head is his barber's basin. He is fashionably dressed, but wears an apron, which, blowing aside in his violent action, displays a large hole in his breeches. A stool, jug, &c, have been overturned, hair-pins lie on the ground, a cat flees in alarm. His little apprentice (left), holding a wig and a tress of hair, looks on with amusement, as do a man and woman (right) who look over a flight of stairs which ascends from the room. The room is a poor one, with plaster coming from the wall, a broken candle on the chimney-piece, over which is a torn print of a tragedy-king reclining on a couch. Two wig-boxes stand on the floor, one inscribed 'Tragedy Wigs', the other 'Comedy Wigs'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "588" in lower left corner., No. 38 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 Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Leaf 12. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"On the Pont Neuf in Paris, various street-traders advertise their business, including a chocolate seller and a lemonade seller on the left, and a shoe-black and a barber on the right, houses and churches in the background; a reversed copy of the larger plate."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had all the works of Mr. Bunbury &c., Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner., For later state with additional plate numbering, see no. 4918 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Signboards -- French lemonade merchants -- Lemonade tanks -- Paris skyline from the Pont Neuf -- French poodles -- Sentries -- Parasols -- French portresses -- French shoeblacks -- Trades: Seller of chocolate -- Basket containing cups -- Pot for 'milling' chocolate., and Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with initials G.R. below.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Pont-Neuf (Paris, France)
Subject (Topic):
Bridges, Signs (Notices), Street vendors, Muffs, Dogs, Umbrellas, Whips, Coach drivers, Guards, Lawyers, Barbers, Wigs, and Bells
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Later state with plate numbering. For earlier state with numbering in upper right corner only, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 771.10.01.02.1+., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had all the works of Mr. Bunbury &c., Plate numbered "13" in upper left corner and "I" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Signboards -- French lemonade merchants -- Lemonade tanks -- Paris skyline from the Pont Neuf -- Muffs -- French poodles -- Sentries -- Parasols -- French portresses -- Whips -- French shoeblacks -- Trades: Seller of chocolate -- Basket containing cups -- Pot for 'milling' chocolate -- Bells -- Paris: Le Pont Neuf., Watermark., and Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Coachdrivers, Dogs, Lawyers, Umbrellas, and Wigs
Leaf 12. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"On the Pont Neuf in Paris, various street-traders advertise their business, including a chocolate seller and a lemonade seller on the left, and a shoe-black and a barber on the right, houses and churches in the background; a reversed copy of the larger plate."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had all the works of Mr. Bunbury &c., Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner., For later state with additional plate numbering, see no. 4918 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Signboards -- French lemonade merchants -- Lemonade tanks -- Paris skyline from the Pont Neuf -- French poodles -- Sentries -- Parasols -- French portresses -- French shoeblacks -- Trades: Seller of chocolate -- Basket containing cups -- Pot for 'milling' chocolate., On leaf 12., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.4 x 35.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Pont-Neuf (Paris, France)
Subject (Topic):
Bridges, Signs (Notices), Street vendors, Muffs, Dogs, Umbrellas, Whips, Coach drivers, Guards, Lawyers, Barbers, Wigs, and Bells
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
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
Title from British Museum catalogue., Original etched by W.H. Toms., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1858. Publication date of the original in Stephens: ca. 1730., Plate numbered '5' in lower left corner, possibly one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck, the Younger's satires, published in the 1760s., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A barbers shop a medley shews, Of monsters, wigs, drawn-teeth and news, While one is shav'd another bleeds, a third the Grub Street Jornal reads ..., Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses. Cf. No. 1859 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Temporary local subject terms: Containers: tubs -- Barber's implements: dish and scissors -- Amputees -- Newspapers: Grub Street Journal -- Medical procedures: blood-letting.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Barbers, Barbershops, Boars, Cats, Dead animals, Dental equipment & supplies, Dentistry, Donkeys, Elephants, Fish, Hunting trophies, Interiors, Medical procedures & techniques, Monkeys, Peg legs, Signs (Notices), and Teeth
