print;
trade-card;
advertisement
- Museum number
- D,2.3319
- Description
-
DRAFT Trade sheet/ advertisement for a barber with a view of a barber's shop with wigs and a man being shaved
Letterpress and wood engraving
- Production date
- 1791 (c.)
- Curator's comments
- Nigel Tattersfield (email Dec 2022): This advertising wafer intended for the windows of local barbers and wigmakers in the Old Street area is decorated with a prominent woodcut (the speech bubbles are typeset as is the thick/thin border and printers flowers beneath). Hair, real and assumed, was big business at the end of the eighteenth century. Amongst the more conventional terms, the text describes 'Tetes' (the high, elaborately ornamented hairstyle adopted by the ladies) and 'Cushions' (light feather pillows inserted within the 'Tetes' to give them body). The date '1791' appended to this item appears entirely appropriate.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,2.3319
