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  • A Malabar barber cutting a customer's hair. Gouache drawing.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A barber dresses a man's hair in the "Coach & Horses" at Southampton: another man looks out of a window at the arrival of a chaise. Colour process print, 1891, after T. Rowlandson.
  • The shorn Samson is rebuffed by Delilah. Engraving by C. Simonneau after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • A barber shaving a man. Watercolour painting.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • Beards takin off. & registurd! / by Isaac Fac-Totum, barber, peri-wig maker, surgeon, parish clark, scool master, blacksmith, and man-midwife.
  • A barber cutting a frowning man's hair. Ink drawing.
  • A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • 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.
  • King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Coloured engraving by W.P. Sherlock, 1817, after H. Holbein, 1542.
  • A hairdresser powdering a wig on a stand. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès de Villers.
  • A female barber lathering the face of a nervous man. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1825.
  • An uncouth man smoking a pipe while having his hair cut, asks the barber for his opinion on wigs and natural hair. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Three officers having their hair dressed by three barbers in Quebec. Wood engraving after S. P. Hall.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Engraving by B. Baron, 1736, after H. Holbein, 1542.
  • The financier Jules Mirès as a barber about to shave an old man representing the old city of Marseilles. Wood engraving by J.-B. E. Diolot.
  • A barber playing the tragic role of Alexander the Great in the acting style of David Garrick. Mezzotint after R. Dighton.
  • Oil painting of a barber shaving a man in a village. Painted by Jan Miel and photographed by Anderson.
  • A barber cutting hair in front of a battlemented bridge in Spain; in the background are two large domed buildings. Etching by J.J. Martínez Espinosa.
  • A street barber shaving the head of a small boy in Cairo. Wood engraving by H. Kaeseberg after W. Gentz.
  • A barber's shop. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 178-, after W.H. Bunbury.
  • An episode in the novel 'Paul Periwinkle': Colonel Sprightly in prison having his hair cut. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • A barber-surgeon's shop in which a man's hair is being cut. Etching, 16--.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).
  • A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by J. Gole after C. Dusart, 1704/1737.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair in a barber's shop at Richmond, Virginia; another man reads 'The New York Herald' while he awaits his turn. Wood engraving after E. Crowe.