A barber's shop. Coloured etching by C. Knight after H.W. Bunbury.

  • Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Date:
21 April 1803
Reference:
30165i
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Description

In the centre a man is seated, swathed in a sheet while a boy on the left applies tongs to his hair, which a man on the right is combing. On the left two men admire their freshly curled hair in the mirror. On the extreme right a barber shaves a man next to whom stands a man who stanches a cut on his cheek with a towel. In the left-hand foreground a seated customer reads a newspaper with a concerned expression

Publication/Creation

London (No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8, Old Broad Street) : Jno. Harris, 21 April 1803.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 34.5 x 44.3 cm

Lettering

H. Bunbury Esqr: delt. ; C. Knight, sculpt.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 30165i

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