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BROWSERS/FOLIO STANDS
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JUSTIN F SKREBOWSKI
Units L3 & L4 Basement, Admiral
Vernon Arcade 141-149 Portobello Road London, W11 2DY, UK.
Telephone: 020 7792 9742 Mobile:
07774 612474
From abroad: +44 20 7792 9742 +44 7774 612474
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CARICATURES
Items of stock will be
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Thomas Rowlandson
London, T. Tegg April 20th 1811
Etching (FRAMED)
Original hand-colouring
250x350mm
£325
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The Enraged Son of Mars and Timid Tonsor
Particularly bright, fresh, original hand-colouring. A scene in a ramshackle barber’s shop. In the centre of the design an elderly outraged soldier sits in a chair, holding his slashed cheek and shaking his fist at the barber who starts back in dismay, cutthroat razor in hand. The barber’s wife, holding a bowl of lather, tries to placate him, while their assistant (his hair foppishly in curl papers) and another client look on in amusement. On the left a client dries his newly shaven head with a towel and a monkey tries on wigs in front of a mirror. On a shelf above are various wig blocks, labelled Parsons Block, Doctors Block, Lawyers Block &c. and on the wall is a picture of Absolom with his long hair caught in a tree, as his horse gallops away. BM 11805.
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Thomas Rowlandson
London, T. Tegg c. 1810
Etching (FRAMED)
Original hand-colouring
350x250mm
£380
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Macassar Oil. An Oily Puff for Soft Heads
A rare medical caricature, with exceptionally, bright fresh, original hand-colouring. A scene in a quack barber surgeon’s shop. A grotesquely ugly, old barber, bends over his equally ugly, pot bellied ‘cit’ client, pouring Macassar oil over his patient’s bald head. On the right the client’s fat, ugly old wife, stares at herself in the mirror in astonishment, as her unnaturally thick, black hair rises vertically from her scalp. Above the mirror is a notice – Wonderful Discovery, Carotty or Grey Whiskers changed to Black, Brown or Blue. On the floor is a cap with donkey’s ears labelled Fools Cap, bottles and jars line the shelves amd on the wall is pinned a large label inscribed – Macassar Oil for the growth of Hair is the finest invention ever known for encreasing hair on bald Places. Its virtues are pre-eminent for improving and beautifying the Hair of Ladies and Gentlemen. This invaluable Oil recommended on the basis of truth and experience is sold at One Guinea pr Bottle by all the Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in the Kingdom.
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