The enraged son of Mars and timid tonsor
The picture represents the interior of a barber's shop, a favourite subject with the caricaturists. A stout customer is expressing slaughterous intentions; a choleric old boy, probably an officer of the Militia, with the shaving-cloth round his short neck, is vowing vengeance on the head of the frightened barber, who has been so maladroit as to carve a tolerable gash in the veteran's round cheek. The tensor's wife, who is also engaged in the business, is, while holding the soap-bowl and lather, thrown into consternation at the uproar raised by the damaged client. An assistant, who is employed in cutting the hair of another customer, is equally distracted, and, in his trepidation, is threatening the ears of his unconscious subject. The barber's monkey for barbers have in all time enjoyed the credit of being fanciers of live stock is lathering his head at a toilette-table, in imitation of the actions of a venerable personage who has just had his head shaved. April 20, 1811
Size: 5454px × 3667px
Location: UK
Photo credit: © The Protected Art Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: barber, blade, cartoon, cut, humor, razor, shave
