A barber shaving a fat bald-headed Oxford University proctor draped in a sheet. Ink drawing by or after G.M. Woodward, 1797.

Woodward illustrates the value of wigs with an anecdote from his visit to Oxford. On passing a barber's shop, he noticed a fat bald man having his face lathered, who appeared to be someone of little consequence (the subject of this drawing). Later he saw the same man, but wearing a wig, "contemplating a curious plant in the physic garden" (the subject of the companion drawing). A gardner told him that "the august personage in question was nothing less than a proctor!".