Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The enraged son of Mars and timid Tonsor.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 07/Normal/Prints/Titles En-Fo GA 2014.00222
Identifier
ark:/88435/ws859p75k
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1811/04/20.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1811
Extent
1 item ; sheet 23.8 x 32.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 205
No Tegg number.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Interior scene: Barbershop where 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 tonsor'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.
Depiction: 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 fancier 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. Various blocks, with their attendant wigs, are ranged round the shelves of the shop, telling of the day when a gentleman's head of hair was sent out to be dressed, while he kept a change of wigs for convenience- sake....Various sketches appear on the walls, the subjects being selected with a view to their trade appositeness.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson del".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Barbershops—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Barbers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Accidents—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Pets—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Monkeys—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Anger—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Fear—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Animals—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9f466b71-1f08-4543-8d77-3c90cea5f93c/manifest