A Chinese Barber. [caption title]
The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited. (circa 1860). Stock ID #178448 "[The itinerant barber]...shaves the head, cleans the ears, arranges the eyebrows; and following a custom, universally established in Asia, to animate the circulation of the blood, and to give more suppleness to the limbs and muscles, he pulls them, extends them, rubs them, and with a light hand strikes them with gentleness: multiple operations, which he executes for a few miserable copper coins..." [descriptive text from George Henry Mason, "The Costume of China..." first published in 1800] When referring to this item please quote stockid 178448.
Engraving 26.7 x 20.6 cm (sheet), edges darkened, a few minor spots, but otherwise in very good condition.
From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.
Price: $50.00 AU