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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

[Bob Foster, the flying barber] / JK Baldrey sculpt.

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Joshua Kirby Baldrey
1754-1828

[Bob Foster, the flying barber] / JK Baldrey sculpt.

Cambridge, England : Pubd Jany 1. 1787. by JK Baldrey, [1787]
etching
image: 111 x 82; sheet: 144 x 82 mm
Peel 1633
Notes
Caption text below image: Saepe velut qui / Currebat fugiens hostem.
Title from British Museum, and suggested by the overall similarity of the subject to that in an etching by the same artist (BM Satires 6834), and by a description of this print in Wordsworth's Social life at the English universities in the eighteenth century.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in George; evidently the same subject shown in BMSat 6834 and BMSat 6835, also by Baldrey and issued February 23, 1785.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows a lean man running to the right as he looks over his shoulder; he holds a small covered pot (a chafer for hot water) in his hand, and under his arm is a barber's bowl and a folded towel.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.
Bibliography

Wordsworth, Christopher. Social life at the English universities in the eighteenth century. Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, 1874, p. 135-136.

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