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  • A barber cutting a boy's hair. Lithograph.
  • A City of London barber holding in his left hand three wigs placed on a frame; the first is a two-tailed wig, the second a small 'scratch' wig and the third a style worn by the macaronis. Etching.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : Van Houten's stands for the highest quality in cocoa.
  • A barber standing in his shop with his hands in his pockets. Coloured lithograph.
  • A monkey shaving a cat's whiskers. Coloured etching by E. Keatinge.
  • A barber brushing the hair of a man who has very little hair. Colour lithograph after H. Heath.
  • A barber standing outside his shop confuses a passer-by with an ambiguously worded notice. Etching by R.W. Smart and aquatint by G. Hunt after W.H. Pyne.
  • A barber shaving a man while another man distracts him by reading from a newspaper entitled "The true sun". Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • A country barber shaving a farmer; another farmer looks into a mirror while he stanches the cut on his face; right, a second barber dresses a man's hair. Coloured engraving.
  • Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A deputation of dissolute surgeons to the Lord Chancellor. Coloured etching by G.M. Woodward, 1797.
  • A barber shaving a man; another man sits in the background awaiting his turn. Coloured etching.
  • A barber standing next to a seated customer in his shop. Coloured etching.
  • A barber cuts a man's face while shaving him; a second barber cuts a cross-eyed boy's hair; a third lathers the face of another man. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after T. Lane.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
  • Animals posing as human beings in an interior of a barber-surgeon's shop. Mezzotint.
  • A barber shaving a large man draped in a sheet. Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber standing in his shop with his hands in his pockets. Coloured lithograph.
  • A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by C. Dusart.
  • Harlequin, magician and barber: the deceived rivals. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1738.
  • Thomas Thorne in character as a barber shaving a man. Process print, ca. 1886.
  • A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands. Colour lithograph after Amadeo Preziosi.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind, surrounded by representations of virtues and proverbs; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • A female barber preparing to shave a man. Engraving after J. Lagniet, 16--.
  • A man rushing into a barber-surgeons' shop to inform the practitioner of the imminent need to vote. Lithograph.
  • Harlequin, magician and barber: the deceived rivals. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1738.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of sixteenth-century barber-surgeon's shop. Photograph.
  • Harlequin, magician and barber: the deceived rivals. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1738.