A Barber's Shop
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet (inlaid): 10 1/16 × 13 7/8 in. (25.5 × 35.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.869
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the lively world of early 19th-century British satire with *A Barber's Shop (1811), a hand etching created by master caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson after design by Henry William Bun. This print captures a chaotic barber shop scene teeming with exaggerated male figures—likely poking fun at the pretensions, follies, and everyday absurdities of Regency gentlemen amid their grooming rituals. Measuring 10 1/16 × 13 7/8 inches, it's a gem from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Elisha Whittelsey Collection. Rowlandson, a leading figure in London's printmaking scene during the Georgian era's...