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DOS2005-PC-031
TRAGEDY BURLESQUED, or the BARBER turned ACTOR.
DOS2005-PC-031

TRAGEDY BURLESQUED, or the BARBER turned ACTOR.

Date1797
Publisher Henry Carington Bowles (1763 - 1830)
Publisher Samuel Carver (1756 - 1841)
Publisher Bowles & Carver (fl. 1793 - 1832)
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack and white mezzotint engraving
DimensionsOverall: 16 × 10 7/8in. (40.6 × 27.6cm) Other: 14 × 9.9cm (5 1/2 × 3 7/8in.)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1939-230
DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, N.o 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London./ TRAGEDY BURLESQUED, or the BARBER turned ACTOR./ Published as the Act directs 24 March 1797."
Label TextPrint showing interior of a barber's shop with barber ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of ALEXANDER GREAT in his one hand, a pair of tongs in another. His hair hangs lose and long, and on his head he wears his barber's basin. He is dressed in a fashionable coat, but wears his apron. Several things in the shop have been overturned during his recital. His young apprentice holding a wig looks on in amusement, as do a lady and man standing on a staircase to the rear of the print.