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Barbers

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  • Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • A barber shaving a man in his shop in 1825. Wood engraving after F. Barnard, 1875.
  • Don Quixote with a lance riding a horse attacks a barber. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Labourers being shaved in a barber's shop on a Saturday evening. Etching by Thomas Jones after himself after C. Dibdin.
  • King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Engraving by B. Baron, 1736, after H. Holbein, 1542.
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    A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).

    Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. | Date: 1844 | Reference: 30634i
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    King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Coloured engraving by W.P. Sherlock, 1817, after H. Holbein, 1542.

    Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543. | Date: 1817 | Reference: 543439i
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    A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.

    Y. G. | Reference: 11748i
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    A travelling barber. Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.

    Vanmour, Jean-Baptiste, 1671-1737. | Date: [1714] | Reference: 37204i
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    Hindu barber shaving a man's head. Gouache drawing.

    | Reference: 32924i
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