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  • A barber cutting the hair of a man who is largely bald. Coloured etching.
  • Hindu barber shaving a man's head. Gouache drawing.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A barber who is also an artist neglects a seated customer whom he was shaving, in order to discuss one of his paintings with a potential purchaser. Photogravure, 1882, after F.A. Grison.
  • A barber shaving a man with a blunt razor. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1829, after E. Bird.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : Van Houten's stands for the highest quality in cocoa.
  • A barber's shop. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 178-, after W.H. Bunbury.
  • A barber-surgeon holding a jester's head over a bowl, an assistant and dog dressed as a clown dance around. Wood engraving.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Wood engraving and letterpress.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • A barber in Rouen dressing a man's hair. Coloured engraving by G.R. Lewis after himself.
  • An Italian man with an extremely long bushy beard requesting a barber to confirm his advertised rate of a shave for one penny; the barber is forced to agree. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • A penny-barber preparing to shave a seated customer who is being lathered with a large brush by a boy assistant, in the background another barber shaves another customer. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • Ferdinand Bartz and an assistant making wigs in Unter den Linden, Berlin; four busts on a pedestal. Engraving, 17--.
  • A barber cutting a man's hair. Woodcut by Jost Amman.
  • A barber shaving a man who looks fearful. Lithograph by L. Boilly, 1823.
  • Boer War: a soldier reads out good news from the front as others cheer and a barber stops work. Halftone, 1900, after F. Dadd after H. Egersdorfer.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
  • A barber's shop. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 178-, after W.H. Bunbury.
  • Practitioners and patients in a busy barber-surgeon's shop; represented by monkeys and cats. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • A barber curling a customer's hair with hot tongs is distracted by an item in the newspaper, consequently burning the man's head. Mezzotint by A.M. Huffam, 1827, after M.W. Sharp.
  • An Egyptian barber shaving a man in his shop; a boy assistant looks on. Etching by G. Malbeste after V. Denon.
  • A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement. Coloured wood engraving after John Leech.
  • King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Engraving by B. Baron, 1736, after H. Holbein, 1542.
  • A French barber shaving John Bull. Coloured etching.
  • A barber lathering a man's face, other men trying on wigs. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1818, after H.W. Bunbury, 1811.
  • A rural surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar amidst a busy workshop. Etching by W. Unger after D. Teniers, the younger.