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The shaver and the shavee
Title
The shaver and the shavee [graphic] / H. Bunbury del.
Publication
[London] : [R. Ackermann], [1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 11.5 x 14 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched in bottom part of image.
Printmaker identified as Rowlandson by Grego.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge.
A reduced copy in reverse of no. 4756 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
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.
Summary
Interior view; a barber has covered his client with soap; prints and wigs hang on the wall.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 12, 2012
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10857
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
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