Intelligence on the change of the ministry [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
[not before 1793]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 49.7 x 35.3 cm., on sheet 52 x 38 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 5, no. 6348

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Copy after a mezzotint of the same name published by Carington Bowles in 1782.
Publication date inferred from the date of partnership of Bowles and Carver. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers.
Verses below imprint begin: Sam Soapsuds was scraping the Deputy;s chin; when Suet and Snip, with Old Cispin came in ...
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i, p. 121, 122 ; May 1954.
Watermark in lower part of sheet, countermark I V in upper part.

Abstract:

"Interior of a poorly-appointed barber's shop. The barber (left) is shaving a customer who sits in profile to the left facing the window, he holds his razor carelessly, to his customer's alarm, while looking eagerly towards another customer, who sits (right) on a stool in profile to the left, reading from the 'Morning Chronicle'. The barber's assistant or apprentice, a small ragged fellow, gapes up at the reader, he straddles across the stand of a barber's block on which is the wig which he is combing. Two other customers listen intently, both wear aprons, one of them is a shoemaker with a last under his arm. The man reading is shown to be a tailor by the yard-measure which hangs from his coat-pocket. On the wall hang coat, hat, wig, a broken looking-glass, a ballad, a roller-towel. In the window wigs are suspended. On the floor are two wig-boxes (left), inscribed 'Mr Deputy Grizzle' and 'Mr Snipp', a barber's bowl, and a night-cap."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Bowles & Carver [Publisher]

Topics:

Apprentices
Barbers
Barbershops
Boxes
Mirrors
Shaving
Shaving equipment
Tailors
Wigs

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1793
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1782
Watermarks (Paper)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

782.05.20.02.2++

Orbis Record:

9057152

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr04974

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10723610

PID:

digcoll:551486