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The dog barber
Title
[The dog barber] [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1770]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and drypoint ; sheet 14.6 x 11 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title, printmaker, and publication date supplied by curator.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
For a version of this design in reverse, published 25 April 1771 by M. Darly, see no. 4668 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Summary
A grinning man with a long queue stands facing right, holding a pair of shears in his left hand. He holds wooden box that serves as a stool in his right hand, and under his right arm is a struggling dog. Behind him, in the upper left, hangs a sign with three fleur-de-lis that is lettered "LA VENGEANCE De crotteur royal Tond des CHIENS Proprement".
Format
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Added to Catalog
June 18, 2020
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1770.
Etchings - England - London - 1770.
Drypoints - England - London - 1770.
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