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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.
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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