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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:A barbers shop [graphic] / T. Rowlandson fecit.
  
• Publication:[London] : Publish'd as the act directs by H. Brookes, Coventry Street, [not before 1786]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching and mezzotint ; plate mark 25 x 33 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 35 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Formerly mounted on verso of leaf 10 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
    
  • Provenance:From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
    
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• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Reissue, with new imprint statement and printmaker's signature added, of a plate originally published 13 December 1780 by T. Rowlandson and J. Jones. Cf. No. 5765 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
  Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue.
  Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
  
• Summary:"The interior of a barber's shop. A very old and completely bald man reclines in an arm-chair (left), a cloth over his shoulders; a fat barber is about to place on his head a tie-wig. On the ground at his side lies a wig with a long pigtail queue which is being befouled by a dog. Behind, on a tall stand, is a barber's block fitted with a small wig. The barber's assistant, a lean man wearing spectacles and an apron, fits a small wig on the head of a stout man, who stands in profile to the right, his hand in his coat-pocket. On the right is a lattice window in three divisions; a man sits in a chair facing the window. Wigs are hung up in the window. On a high shelf (left) are round wig-boxes. Next the shelf is nailed up a print of Absalom hanging from a tree, while his horse gallops away. ... The ceiling is raftered."--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1780.
  Etchings--England--London--1786.
  Mezzotints--England--London--1786.