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[Bob Foster, the flying barber (2).]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
[Bob Foster, the flying barber (2).]
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 6834. Foster shaves a man seated (left) in a chair, draped in a sheet. They face each other in profile. Foster puts his left hand under his client's chin, holding the razor up with a dramatic gesture. Beneath the design is etched:



'Tonsor ego - Tonsoris opem si forte requiras,
Mappa subest - ardet Culter - et Unda tepet,
Des nummos - uno tibi Barba evanuit ictu,
Si male, tolle obolum: si bene - plura refer.' 23 February 1785


Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Bob Foster
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 149 millimetres
Width: 99 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,2.35
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Described, C. Wordsworth, 'Social Life at the English Universities', 1874, pp. 136-7, where a different and longer version of the epigram is given, attributed to Gilbert Wakefield. For Foster or Forster see also Gunning, 'Reminiscences', 1854, i. 179-80.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-35
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