Labourers being shaved in a barber's shop on a Saturday evening. Etching by Thomas Jones after himself after C. Dibdin.

  • Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1828.
Date:
1800-1899
Reference:
29921i
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"'Twas Saturday night, six went the clock, / Spruce was the barber's shop; / Wigs decorated every block, / From scratch to Tyburn-top. / Mambrino's helmet, scour'd so bright, / Smild to receive the suds; / And labourers flock'd to shave o'er night, / To grace their Sunday's duds. / Who each Saturday-night, / To get decent in plight, / Get shavid, fit for church on the Sunday ; / Of their transgressions sore, / To pay off the week's score, / The better to sin on the Monday. …"--Dibdin, loc. cit.

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London : [Novello]

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1 print : etching ; image 8.9 x 10.7 cm

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The barber's shop, ; Twas Saturday night, six went the clock, / Spruce was the barber's shop. ; Pub. to face Novello's pocket edition of Dibdin. ; Drawn & etched by. Tho.s Jones.

References note

Charles Dibdin, The professional life of Mr. Dibdin, written by himself, London 1803, vol. IV, p. 300

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Wellcome Collection 29921i

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