A Barber's Shop

Henry Brookes|Thomas Rowlandson

[published 1780] reissued ca. 1800 · Etching and aquatint; later reissue · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Henry Brookes|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

[published 1780] reissued ca. 1800

Medium

Etching and aquatint; later reissue

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959