A Barber's Shop

Publisher Henry Brookes British
[published 1780] reissued ca. 1800
Not on view
Inside a barber's shop, two customers are fitted with wigs, a dog urinates on a wig on the floor at left, and another man sits at right under three latticed windows, with more wigs supported by stands. Wig boxes are stacked on a shelf at upper left near a crude image of Absalom caught by his hair in a tree as his horse gallops away.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Barber's Shop
  • Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
  • Publisher: Henry Brookes (British, active 1786–95)
  • Published in: London
  • Date: [published 1780] reissued ca. 1800
  • Medium: Etching and aquatint; later reissue
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 3/8 in. (23.7 × 18.7 cm)
    Mount: 11 5/8 x 9 9/16 in. (29.6 x 24.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.533.389
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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