Title etched below image., Date and place of publication from item., In margin upper right: Plate 21, Vol.6., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
No.34 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts & c. Pub. Octr. 1, 1811, at 101 Strand London
A satirical depiction of a machine which shaves six people in a line using a brush and razor which slide along a bar worked by a cogwheel turned by a man. In the lower left, a barber tends to a wig with curling tongs; a pile of hats along the lower design. A blunderbuss is used as powdering horn. With an address to the public below and key to numbered references below. Pictures on the walls amplifying the subject
Description:
Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Caption below image begins: To the public. Whereas the wonderful powers of this useful machine are yet but little known ..., and Possibly the original of no. 15654 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gearing, Hair preparations, Hairdressing, Inventions, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
BEIN 2018 238: Paperbound. Stamp: Bibl. Gvst C. Galletti Flor. and Imperfect: Folded map only. Carta dei viaggi fatti da Cristoforo Colombo per l'Oceano Atlantico ... P. Binaghi inc. per L'opera del par Amati. Ricerche Storico-Crit. 1830.
Publisher:
Coi tipi di Giovanni Pirotta
Subject (Topic):
Art, History, Printing, Science, Literature, History and criticism, and Inventions
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Two lines of text below title: Particularly recommended to gentlemen intending to take an early standing place in the streets ...
Publisher:
William Spooner, 377, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Inventions, Nails & spikes, Umbrellas, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
