IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225484 accession number: P.14874-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching on laid paper. A man seated on a chair with a long linen sheet tied around his chin to the left. To the right, a slender man in wig and frock coat stands astride him, his left hand lifting up the man's chin and his right arm held aloft with a razor held open in his hand. Within an etched rectangular border. Etched onto the plate below the border at lower right: 'JKBaldrey Sculp.t'. A verse in latin etched on the plate below: '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.' The publication date, place and printmaker etched below: 'Pub.d Feb.y 23.1785. by JKBaldrey, Cambridge'. The print is trimmed to the platemark and laid down on a larger sheet of paper, onto which is written in brown ink: 'Bob Foister vulgo the flying Barber / shaving Dick Robert's Fellow of Kings / they are equally good likenesses designed / by Rev.d J. Bearblock of King's Cambridge'. The design was later engraved with more background detail and published by W. Mason with the title: 'Bob Foster, The Cambridge Flying Barber'. See British Museum (BM), 1851,0308.276. See also BM, J,2.34, which is a companion to the earlier barbering scene after Bearblock (also etched by Baldrey and published on the same date) and features Foster hurrying along carrying his barber's equipment (ref. George, 6834). title: satirical print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225484 TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1785 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1785 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Baldrey, Joshua Kirby maker: Rev. James Bearblock