Author: Mills, Alfred (1776-1833)
Title: Pop in & Popt out. . a Noted Wag on Frolic Bent Once on a Time Did Stop Where Blocks & Wigs in Window Plac'd Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop... First Edition of the Aquatint
Description: London: Bowles & Carver, 1806. Handcoloured aquatint, 23 x 28.5cm. Marginal stains. Matted. From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr. the founder of Gale Research, Detroit..Ref. British Museum no. 1873,0712.867..A young man, wearing ill-fitting clothes of fashionable intention, stands with his face against the (broken) paper covering one of the panes of a ramshackle barber's shop. Through the adjacent paper pane the barber has thrust out a grinning head. Paper replaces glass in all eight lower panes of the window, with inscriptions, some obscured, e.g.: 'False Wigs made By the best [h]and in the Trade!' and 'Jemmy Wright shaves right & Powders white by day and Night.' In the upper (cracked) panes are wigs and wig-blocks. The door (l.) of rough planks is inscribed: 'Nok at the Dore and Youle finde puf Who SHaves for a peny and thinks it enuf.' Above the door: 'HeRe liVes JEMMY WRIGHT SHAVES as well as any Man in England. Almost - Not Quite.' Three would-be fashionables walk (r. to left.) past, much amused: a man between two women, who each take an arm, one is hideous, the other comely. Below the design: 'A noted Wag on frolic bent Once on a time did stop Where blocks & wigs in window plac'd Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop: Thro' Paper fix'd in place of glass This Wag his head did pop, And ask'd "is Jemmy Wright at home Who keeps this Barber's Shop"? Our Witty Barber from within Replied to him without, By answering at another Pane "No Sir, he's just Popt out."' 2 January 1806. .
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Title: Pop in & Popt out. . a Noted Wag on Frolic Bent Once on a Time Did Stop Where Blocks & Wigs in Window Plac'd Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop... First Edition of the Aquatint
Description: London: Bowles & Carver, 1806. Handcoloured aquatint, 23 x 28.5cm. Marginal stains. Matted. From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr. the founder of Gale Research, Detroit..Ref. British Museum no. 1873,0712.867..A young man, wearing ill-fitting clothes of fashionable intention, stands with his face against the (broken) paper covering one of the panes of a ramshackle barber's shop. Through the adjacent paper pane the barber has thrust out a grinning head. Paper replaces glass in all eight lower panes of the window, with inscriptions, some obscured, e.g.: 'False Wigs made By the best [h]and in the Trade!' and 'Jemmy Wright shaves right & Powders white by day and Night.' In the upper (cracked) panes are wigs and wig-blocks. The door (l.) of rough planks is inscribed: 'Nok at the Dore and Youle finde puf Who SHaves for a peny and thinks it enuf.' Above the door: 'HeRe liVes JEMMY WRIGHT SHAVES as well as any Man in England. Almost - Not Quite.' Three would-be fashionables walk (r. to left.) past, much amused: a man between two women, who each take an arm, one is hideous, the other comely. Below the design: 'A noted Wag on frolic bent Once on a time did stop Where blocks & wigs in window plac'd Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop: Thro' Paper fix'd in place of glass This Wag his head did pop, And ask'd "is Jemmy Wright at home Who keeps this Barber's Shop"? Our Witty Barber from within Replied to him without, By answering at another Pane "No Sir, he's just Popt out."' 2 January 1806. .
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Price: US$ 300.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-4671
- Book number: 16-4671
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