[A barber's shop] [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[1766?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 29 x 25 cm, on sheet 34 x 29 cm

Notes:

Title from British Museum catalogue.
Original etched by W.H. Toms.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1858. Publication date of the original in Stephens: ca. 1730.
Plate numbered '5' in lower left corner, possibly one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck, the Younger's satires, published in the 1760s.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A barbers shop a medley shews, Of monsters, wigs, drawn-teeth and news, While one is shav'd another bleeds, a third the Grub Street Jornal reads ...
Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses. Cf. No. 1859 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Temporary local subject terms: Containers: tubs -- Barber's implements: dish and scissors -- Amputees -- Newspapers: Grub Street Journal -- Medical procedures: blood-letting.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954; Acquisitions no.: 954-5-1-132.

Associated Names:

Hemskirk, E. [Artist]

Topics:

Animals in human situations
Barbers
Barbershops
Boars
Cats
Dead animals
Dental equipment & supplies
Dentistry
Donkeys
Elephants
Fish
Hunting trophies
Interiors
Medical procedures & techniques
Monkeys
Peg legs
Signs (Notices)
Teeth

Topics:

Toms, W. H. approximately 1700-approximately 1750

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1766
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1730

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

766.00.00.05+

Orbis Record:

8427218

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr02533

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10713283

PID:

digcoll:940955