Books+ Search Results
A crop shop
Title
A crop shop [graphic] / R.N.
Publication
London : Pubd. Octr. 8, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., [8 October 1791]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 24.2 x 36 cm
Medium
laid paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
The interior of barber shop: On the left a man stands before a mirror, face contorted as he wipes his jaw, unaware of the boy behind him pointing and laughing at him as he holds the man's pigtail in his hand. Another customer is shown in the center seated on a chair, the barber behind him about to cut off his pigtail as well. The third man sits in a chair on the right, reading a newspaper; his lower head is also shorn of its pigtail. The room show other customers as well as stands for wigs. Above the door on the right hangs a sign "R. Crop'em, hair dresser", a second sign beneath reads "Shave for a penny. Crop for two penny." Through the window on the left in the back, is a display of ladies' hats.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 12, 2017
References
Alexander, D.S. Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s, 18
Subjects
Genre/Form
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1791.
Etchings - England - London - 1791.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
