Chris Beetles Gallery

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Damn the Barber

Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827)

Price

£4,500

Signed

Signed

Medium

Ink and watercolour

Dimensions

5 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches

Exhibited

'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1806-2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2025-January 2026, no 1

In the later years of his career, Thomas Rowlandson often produced copies and redraws of his most popular images and prints. The present image of a barber shop is likely to be one of those redraws based off an earlier print. There is a similar drawing to his image in the collection of the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco.

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