Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A barber's shop: the central figure is a man seated, swathed in a sheet while a boy on the left applies tongs to his hair, which a man on the right is combing; two men on the left admire their freshly curled hair in the mirror; on the extreme right a barber shaves a man to whom next stands a man who stanches a cut on his cheek with a towel; in the left-hand foreground a seated customer reads a newspaper with a concerned expression. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W.H. Bunbury.
A barber's shop: the central figure is a man seated, swathed in a sheet while a boy on the left applies tongs to his hair, which a man on the right is combing; two men on the left admire their freshly curled hair in the mirror; on the extreme right a barber shaves a man to whom next stands a man who stanches a cut on his cheek with a towel; in the left-hand foreground a seated customer reads a newspaper with a concerned expression. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W.H. Bunbury.
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A barber's shop: the central figure is a man seated, swathed in a sheet while a boy on the left applies tongs to his hair, which a man on the right is combing; two men on the left admire their freshly curled hair in the mirror; on the extreme right a barber shaves a man to whom next stands a man who stanches a cut on his cheek with a towel; in the left-hand foreground a seated customer reads a newspaper with a concerned expression. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W.H. Bunbury.

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Lettering: A barbers shop ; H. Bunbury del ; Rowlandson sculp.

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