File:(Bob Foster, the flying barber (1).) (BM J,2.34).jpg
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Title |
[Bob Foster, the flying barber (1).] |
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Description |
English: A companion print to BMSat 6835. A lean man, in profile to the left, runs holding a small covered pot (a chafer for hot water) in his left hand; under his right arm is a barber's bowl, under his left. arm a folded towel. Beneath is etched:
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Depicted people | Associated with: Bob Foster | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1785 date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
J,2.34 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Foster was for many years hairdresser to Clare Hall, eccentric but honest, noted for his rapidity in walking, talking, and shaving. 'Camb. Antiq. Soc., Catalogue of Exhibition of Cambridge Caricatures, Fitzwilliam Museum', 1908. Cf. 'Epitaph sent to Bob Foster . . . since which time the University has made him a more lasting and characteristic present, of a Silver Bason: Cut smooth by Death's tremendous razor, Lies dapper Bob, eccentrick Shaver,... Excursions to Parnassus ... by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge, 1787', p. 61. The print illustrates not only an individual, but a type, extinct, according to J. T. Smith, in London by 1815, but surviving in some country villages. He 'flies about' to his customers, always carrying napkin, soap, pewter basin, and a covered leaden pot for hot water. 'Ancient Topography of London', p. 33. An impression (or copy) of this print, 'Pub. Jan. 1, 1787, by J. K. Baldrey, Cambridge' is described in Wordsworth's 'Social Life at the English Universities', 1874, p. 136. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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