print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.399
- Title
- Object: A sufferer for decency.
- Description
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The interior of a penny-barber's shop showing one corner of a small raftered room lit by a lamp hung from the roof and inscribed 'Shave with Ease & Expedetion for one Penny'. The barber (right) flourishes his razor above the head of a lean client whose face a boy (left) coats with lather, using a large brush; a bucket hangs on the boy's arm. In the background (right) a second customer in back view is also being shaved. Two wig-blocks lie on the ground (right). 20 June 1789
Aquatint and etching
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Height: 390 millimetres
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Width: 265 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
See BMSat 7605, a companion print.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 257 (reproduction).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.399