Boston Public LibraryEnglish Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists / Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
The enraged son of Mars and timid tonsor
Item Information
- Title:
- The enraged son of Mars and timid tonsor
- Description:
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The picture represents the interior of a barber's shop, a favourite subject with the caricaturists. A stout customer is expressing slaughterous intentions; a choleric old boy, probably an officer of the Militia, with the shaving-cloth round his short neck, is vowing vengeance on the head of the frightened barber, who has been so maladroit as to carve a tolerable gash in the veteran's round cheek. The tensor's wife, who is also engaged in the business, is, while holding the soap-bowl and lather, thrown into consternation at the uproar raised by the damaged client. An assistant, who is employed in cutting the hair of another customer, is equally distracted, and, in his trepidation, is threatening the ears of his unconscious subject. The barber's monkey for barbers have in all time enjoyed the credit of being fanciers of live stock is lathering his head at a toilette-table, in imitation of the actions of a venerable personage who has just had his head shaved.
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Rowlandson Del.
- Date:
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April 20, 1811
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Barbers
Barbershops
Shaving
Monkeys
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 24 x 18 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pc306
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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No. 111 Cheapside :
Tho's Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 205
- Notes (date):
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Date from item.
- Notes (citation):
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Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
- Identifier:
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18_03_000221
- Barcode:
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36666003331333
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