Interior of a poorly-appointed barber's shop. The barber (left) is shaving a customer who sits in profile to the left facing the window, he holds his razor carelessly, to his customer's alarm, while looking eagerly towards another customer, who sits (right) on a stool in profile to the left, reading from the 'morning chronicle'. The barber's assistant or apprentice, a small ragged fellow, gapes up at the reader, he straddles across the stand of a barber's block on which is the wig which he is combing. Two other customers listen intently, both wear aprons, one of them is a shoemaker with a last under his arm. The man reading is shown to be a tailor by the yard-measure which hangs from his coat-pocket. On the wall hang coat, hat, wig, a broken looking-glass, a ballad, a roller-towel. In the window wigs are suspended. On the floor are two wig-boxes (left), inscribed 'mr deputy grizzle' and 'mr snipp', a barber's bowl, and a night-cap. C. April 1783
hand-coloured mezzotint with etching. Date: circa 1783. Dimensions: Height: 353 mm; Width: 252 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Intelligence on the Change of the Ministry (BM 2010,7081.1165)
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