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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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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